Pendle Hill’s Reading Group (February)

Our Reading Group focuses on Pendle Hill pamphlets and other Quaker readings, gathering to consider queries about the reading in a spirit of worship sharing.

This month, in honor of Black History Month, we will read Mary Watkins’s recent Pendle Hill pamphlet on reparations, Hypocrisy, Racism, and Self-Interest on the Path to Reparations: Quaker Complicity with Slavery (1657–1776) and White Supremacy (PHP #489), exploring how Quakers’ historical complicity with slavery can inform our present-day efforts towards reparations.

You can purchase copies of this popular publication at the following links:

Hypocrisy, Racism, and Self-Interest on the Path to Reparations: Quaker Complicity with Slavery (1657–1776) and White Supremacy
PH pamphlet (printed edition)
Amazon Kindle (e-book) – forthcoming
Barnes & Noble Nook (e-book) – forthcoming

Leader

Janaki Spickard Keeler, M.S.S., L.C.S.W. is a life-long Quaker, writer, and family therapist. She has a masters degree in social work from Bryn Mawr College and did her undergraduate study at Smith College in political science and mathematics. As a clinical social worker, she unites writing with sacred change, helping people re-author the narratives of their lives in a direction that better fits their deep truths.

Janaki stewards the Pendle Hill Pamphlets series of essays on Quaker perspectives on contemporary themes, serves her yearly meeting as coordinator of the Friends Counseling Service, and blogs occasionally at The Quietest Quaker. She is a member of Chestnut Hill Monthly Meeting (PYM) and the author of Pendle Hill pamphlet #478.

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