No Other

Tensions and conflict arise in a range of contexts – political and public, communities and families, and within the self. But separation and division are human distortions. The more we can recognize the oneness of all, the closer we will draw to the One from whom all emerges and in whom all meets. There is no such thing as the other.

Leader

Jennifer Kavanagh will build on the framework of the Alternatives to Violence Project, Faith & Practice, and other writers and spiritual leaders, providing space for Friends to consider how they are engaging with this moment, grounding our action in Spirit. 

Jennifer has been Pendle Hill’s Friend in Residence beginning in fall 2024.  Jennifer became a Quaker in 1995. She gave up a career in publishing to work with those on the margins: people in poverty, homeless or in prison. Jennifer is an associate tutor at Woodbrooke Quaker study centre and now spends most of her time writing, speaking, and running retreats on the Spirit-led life. She has published twelve non-fiction books and three novels. Jennifer finds balancing an active life with a pull towards contemplation a continuing and fruitful challenge. As she writes, “Life in the world is about a series of balances: of the life within and the outside world; inner experience and outward witness, plenitude and the void”.  You can learn more about Jennifer at https://www.jenniferkavanagh.co.uk/.