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.

In support of Windy Cooler and Powell House’s 2024 series on public ministers, we will explore two pamphlets on supporting gifts of ministry: Martha Grundy’s Tall Poppies: Supporting Gifts of Ministry and Eldering in the Monthly Meeting (PHP #347) and Debbie Humphries’s Spreading the Fire: Challenging and Encouraging Friends Through Travel in the Ministry (PHP #436). You can purchase copies of these popular publications at the following links:

Tall Poppies: Supporting Gifts of Ministry and Eldering in the Monthly Meeting
PH pamphlet (printed edition)
Amazon Kindle (e-book)
Barnes & Noble Nook (e-book)

Spreading the Fire: Challenging and Encouraging Friends Through Travel in the Ministry
PH pamphlet (printed edition)
Amazon Kindle (e-book)
Barnes & Noble Nook (e-book)

Thanks to the generous support of the Friends Foundation for the Aging, we’re able to make this and other free, online programs accessible to f/Friends of all ages.

In addition, for the writers among us, you are invited to join a Quaker Writers’ Retreat at Pendle Hill, June 27-30, 2024.

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).

Travel directions to Pendle Hill. Please make sure to review our health and safety expectations at https://pendlehill.org/stay/covid-19-information/.