Rebuilding a More Peaceful Society

Rebuilding a More Peaceful Society
How do we deal with the aftermath of the 2024 elections and work for a long-term more just, peaceful society?
You are encouraged to join with a pen and paper or a journal, and/or basic drawing materials. 

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 in pairs, groups, and on their own 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/.