May 2015 E-newsletter

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E-newsletter | May 2015

In This Issue

• SPRING CHALLENGE MATCH! Will you help us reach our goal?
• NEW! Institute for Creative Conflict Engagement and Transformation now accepting online applications
• FREE! June 1 Monday Night Lecture Series welcomes academic Andrew Billingsley (a Live Streaming event)
• Two new Pendle Hill Scholars join our community
• Experience Art at Pendle Hill!
• NEW! Video recordings from Ending Mass Incarceration now available
• NEW! June 2015 pamphlet – Mary Coelho offers a new way of seeing, integrating science and religion
• NEW! Pamphlet subscriptions now include six issues per year… and you can pay using PayPal!
• Recipe: Cattle Bean & Mushroom Ragout
• Jobs at Pendle Hill

Pamphlet Spotlight

NEW June 2015 Pamphlet #433

Recovering Sacred Presence in a Disenchanted World

by Mary Conrow Coelho

Contemporary Westerners are caught between contradictory ways of understanding the world: science and faith seem to be incompatible. And when we experience spiritual openings, when the Presence breaks through into our lives, what do we make of it? Mary Conrow Coelho, who has studied both science and theology, interprets a “new way of seeing.”

By incorporating scientific breakthroughs which challenge the limits of a materialistic worldview and progressive thinking on the frontiers of theology, she offers a fresh perspective on the place of sacredness in the world and in our own lives. Read more

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Subscriptions to our pamphlet series now include 6 issues/year; PayPal now accepted!

Pendle Hill now publishes six pamphlets a year, each on a theme of importance to Friends and other spiritual seekers, and each about 36 pages in length. Subscribe now and your subscription will start with our next two pamphlets, Mary Conrow Coelho’s Recovering Sacred Presence in a Disenchanted World (see above) and “The Quiet Way” (August 2015) by Welsh Friend Elaine Pryce. Do you have a manuscript you’d like considered as a possible Pendle Hill pamphlet? Please review our pamphlet submission guidelines.

To subscribe to our pamphlets or to purchase any of our titles directly, please visit our online store (where both secure credit card and PayPal payments are now accepted). Alternatively, call 610-566-4507, ext. 124, or e-mail pamphlets@pendlehill.org.

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Some of our most popular pamphlets are now available as e-pubs on the Amazon (for Kindle e-readers) and Barnes and Noble (for Nooks) websites. These include William Taber’s seminal Four Doors to Meeting for Worship and The Prophetic Stream, Wilmer Cooper’s The Testimony of Integrity in the Religious Society of Friends, and Rex Ambler’s The Light Within: Then and Now.

Discover the growing number of titles available by searching either site with the search term “pendle hill pamphlets.”

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Recipe: Cattle Bean & Mushroom Ragout

Made almost entirely out of pantry ingredients, this dish has a surprisingly complex flavor. Spoon it over your choice of egg noodles, orzo, or polenta and top with a sprinkle of parmesan cheese if so desired. Read more

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Employment Opportunities

Pendle Hill is hiring talented individuals for the following positions. Might the right person be you or someone you know?

• Guest Services Manager
• Guest Services Associate (Part-Time)
• Cook

If you’re interested in joining our team, click the links above for a complete job description.

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Spring Annual Fund Challenge Match

You can double your impact on Pendle Hill right now by giving to our 2015 Spring Annual Fund Challenge Match! Thanks to four generous friends of Pendle Hill your donation today will be matched dollar for dollar – up to $50,000!

Your support helps Pendle Hill provide a sacred space for experiential learning, contemplation, social justice training, and spiritual development. Please donate to the Spring Annual Fund Challenge Match today!

Thank you.

Institute for Creative Conflict Engagement and Transformation (ICCET)

Learn to engage conflict creatively and confidently with core faculty members Diana and John Lampen, George Lakey, Dan Snyder, Yael Petretti, Pamela Freeman, Jane Connor, Jennifer Beer, Carolyn Schodt, and Rubye Howard Braye.
Apply Today!
Jul 15-Aug 9, 2015

Whether we are called to be social change agents or simply aspire to create a healthier environment in our community, workplace, family, or meeting, we need to understand conflict and how to engage it creatively for transformation. Read more

The ICCET is an exciting new 25-day certificate program designed to create a community of advanced learners. Its participants will develop the necessary skills and practices – many honed by Quakers in conflict situations over the decades – that will enable them to engage conflict courageously, confidently, and competently.

First Mondays: Andrew Billingsley’s firsthand account of growing up poor in Alabama

Dr. Andrew Billingsley
Jun 1, 2015 at 7:30pm in The Barn.
Free and open to the public (however, online registration is preferred).

Andrew Billingsley is one of the earliest and foremost scholars of the African-American family. Retired from a distinguished academic career, he has often come to Pendle Hill for writing retreats to work on his autobiography. We are honored to have him with us June 1 to share memories of his own experience of family – and growing up poor, Black, and male in Alabama – from his work in progress. Read more

Copies of his latest book, Yearning to Breathe Free: Robert Smalls of South Carolina and his Families (University of South Carolina Press, 2007), are expected to be available on the night.

New 2014-15 Scholars arrive at Pendle Hill

Timothy Ashworth joined us this month as our 2015 Carroll Scholar for Biblical and Quaker Studies. Tim – who hails from Birmingham, UK – is working on a book manuscript that seeks to clarify the transformative nature of very early Christian experience.

Nature photographer David Foster also joins us for ten weeks as the new Minnie Jane Artist-in-Residence Scholar for 2015. Click the following link to read David’s statement of intent for his residency here. Some of his work can be seen as part of the “Seeking the Light” exhibition currently on display in the Barn (see related article, below).

Please offer David and Tim a warm welcome if you see them on campus.

Experience Art at Pendle Hill!

“Seeking the Light: An Exhibition of Quaker Photographers.” Selected works by Terry Foss, David Foster, Emma Hohenstein, Elke Muller, Rufus Standefer, and Mary Waddington
May 6-Jul 31, 2015 in The Barn.
Free and open to the public.

“Seeking the Light” is a juried art exhibit – Quaker photographers were invited to submit works on their interpretation of the theme. From landscapes and close-up nature images to photographs of Quaker meetinghouses and portraits, this exhibit offers you a visual scavenger hunt to seek and find the Light.

“Make. Believe.” is the next Arts and Spirituality series course offering on Saturdays – June 13, 20, and 27 – from 9:30am-12:00pm. This course invites you to play creatively and intuitively and reconnect with your ability to hear Spirit the way you did in your youth. Get ready for scavenger hunts, moving sculptures, mixed-media, and paper craft! Together we will rediscover our magical powers, daring imaginations, and thriving creativity. $130; register by June 6th.

Open Studio sessions will be offered on Saturday, June 20 and 27, from 1:30-5:30pm. $25 for each session, payable at the door. Come create in community! Read more

Video recordings from our recent Ending Mass Incarceration conference now available on Pendle Hill’s YouTube channel

Pendle Hill was honored to welcome noted author Michelle Alexander as keynote speaker at our recent Ending Mass Incareration and the New Jim Crow conference. Her interview-style presentation is now available to view on our YouTube channel.

Videos of the conference’s plenary sessions will also be uploaded there shortly, so please be sure to check back periodically.