Pendle Hill, a Quaker study and retreat center located outside Philadelphia, Pa., welcomed 261 sojourners, 97 groups, 1,743 online and in-person program registrants, and 14,899 visits to hybrid meeting for worship between February and July 2024.
Spring began with programs like Beyond Diversity 101 with Niyonu Spann, Clearness Committees with Valerie Brown and John Baird, as well as the 2024 Spring Term. This ten-week resident student program included worship, community work, and learning opportunities such as the Quaker Institute, a four-day workshop on living Quaker testimonies in “the fierce urgency of now,” which gathered nearly 100 Friends to campus.
Season four of Pendle Hill’s podcast The Seed: Conversations for Radical Hope launched with new episodes featuring Parker Palmer, Adria Gulizia, Felix Rosado, Rabbi Mordechai Liebling, and Valerie Brown, who discussed with host Dwight Dunston what spiritual alignment looks like in this moment of escalating social and political upheaval.
Pendle Hill renovated its historic Upmeads building, a five-bedroom/seven-bed retreat space with attached library, living room, and kitchenette. Since it became available in March, the center has hosted 19 groups and more than 100 guests there.
Pendle Hill also published four new pamphlets as part of its 90-year-long pamphlet series, with original memoirs and essays from John Andrew Gallery, Sue Williams, Rhiannon Grant, and Bridget Moix.
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