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E-newsletter \| March 2016		In This Issue $75,000 Annual Fund Challenge! Stephen G. Cary Memorial Lecture 2016, with Emma Lapsansky-Werner Pendle Hill Rewind: April 1956 Featured Workshop: Orr and Briggs want us to wake up to love and compassion! A Friend-in-Residence reflects New April 2016 pamphlet: Michael Birkel takes a fresh look at the sensual and profoundly poetic Song of Songs Employment Opportunities Recipe: Old-Fashioned Apple Pan Dowdy Upcoming Events Present in Every Moment: Waking Up to Love and Compassion in Our Lives Mar 20-27, 2016 Open Studio Session Mar 26, 2016 Breaking Through: Quieting the Critic and Greeting the Artist Apr 2, 2016 Stephen G. Cary Memorial Lecture 2016: Raising Quakers in Secular Society Apr 4, 2016 Our Life is Love: the Quaker Spiritual Journey Apr 8-10, 2016 Open Studio Session Apr 9 and 16, 2016 Conversations with Land: Art-Making that Expresses the Essence of the Land Apr 24, 2016 Pamphlet Spotlight NEW April 2016 pamphlet #438 A Seal upon the Heart: Quaker Readings in the Song of Songs by Michael Birkel “The Song of Songs stands as unique among the books of the Bible. This collection of love lyrics, candid in their sensuality and profoundly poetic in their imagery, has attracted lovers of God across the centuries.” Read more We are once again accepting credit/debit cards (via PayPal Payments) in our online store. Please review the specific steps on the checkout page, and note that you do not need a PayPal account to purchase Pendle Hill books, pamphlets, or pamphlet subscriptions online (although a PayPal account does simplify the process considerably). By subscribing to our pamphlet series, you will receive a new pamphlet once every other month (six pamphlets per year), delivered to your door. Order online, e-mail your order to pamphlets@pendlehill.org, or call 610-566-4507, ext. 124. In addition, many of our classic pamphlets are now available in electronic form for Kindle and Nook Book e-readers. Latest availability can be found online at the amazon.com and the barnesandnoble.com websites. Jobs at Pendle Hill Pendle Hill is hiring wonderful, talented people. Might the right person for one of the following positions be you, or someone you know? Communications and Outreach Coordinator Guest Services Manager Interested in joining our staff community? Click on the job description(s) above for more information.
$75,000 Annual Fund Challenge! It’s our largest challenge to date! Whether you have given to Pendle Hill recently, in years past, or never before, you can help us meet this extraordinary and ambitious goal. An anonymous donor has generously given Pendle Hill a $75,000 matching grant to encourage increased philanthropic support for our beloved community. All new, increased, and renewed gifts will be matched dollar-for-dollar! You can have an impact on the lives of many and the future of Pendle Hill. Thank you!

	Stephen G. Cary Memorial Lecture: Raising Quakers in a Secular Society Emma Lapsansky-Werner Apr 4, 2016 at 7:30pm in The Barn. Free and open to the public (online registration required). This event will be streamed live over the Internet. “True Godliness don’t [sic] turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it, and excites their endeavors to mend it.” —William Penn How do we transmit Quaker values from one generation to the next? As a Quaker historian and a parent of three adult graduates of Friends’ schools, Emma Lapsansky-Werner has been fascinated by this question, both professionally and personally. In this talk, Emma invites us to probe this question through the lens of the correspondence of one 19th-century network of European-American Quaker families. Read more

PENDLE HILL REWIND Bulletin No. 130, April 1956 This 60-year-old edition of the Pendle Hill Bulletin featured Joanne Mott’s philosophical interpretation of Undine, an 1811 fairy-tale novella by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué. Clearly the Arts & Spirituality were as important to Pendle Hill then as they are today! Other academic happenings that year included the publication of Simone Weil’s seminal The Iliad, or: The Poem of Force (PHP #91, which is still a big seller even now), and South African writer Laurens van der Post giving an on-campus lecture entitled “Venture to the Interior.”

	Featured Workshop Present in Every Moment: Waking Up to Love and Compassion in Our Lives Mary Grace Orr and Anne Briggs present a week-long Mindfulness Meditation retreat Mar 20-27, 2016 Mindfulness meditation is a simple technique offered by the Buddha for awakening the mind and heart. This retreat will be a time of silence, with periods of sitting and walking practice, opportunities to talk about your own practice, and formal presentations. It is suitable for both beginners and experienced meditators. Mary Grace Orr is a senior teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Marin County (CA). Anne Briggs is a lifelong Quaker who also leads the Insight Meditation Community of Chestertown (MD). Read more

What Resident Friends Bring to the Pendle Hill Table Friends in Residence are volunteers who live at Pendle Hill for anywhere from three months to a year. Their main role is to hold the space for the fulfillment of Pendle Hill’s mission. We attend worship daily, sometimes serving as its conveners. We join staff and guests at meals. We make ourselves available as compassionate listeners and hold Pendle Hill and all of its people in the Light of prayer. In the midst of the busy activity that is required to keep Pendle Hill thriving, we have the charge of holding a consistent and intentional spiritual presence. Along with holding space, we also sometimes hold other things – a steering wheel or a cleaning cloth, a box of teabags or a plate of snacks, an armful of blankets or a set of keys. Read more

	Recipe: Old-Fashioned Apple Pan Dowdy The word “dowdy” comes from the Middle English “doude” and refers to an inelegant person or thing. Its association with this dessert comes from the (optional) haphazard style of slicing up the top crust halfway through the baking! Read more

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