Using Pamphlets for Spiritual Deepening and Religious Education

Pendle Hill’s publication team, Janaki Spickard Keeler and Lucas Meyer-Lee, will host a dialogue on how Pendle Hill pamphlets can be used to deepen our personal and collective spiritual journeys. Janaki and Lucas will present resources, including reading lists, lesson plans, and reading group facilitation instructions. The workshop will also open for a discussion about the present and potential roles that participants envision for pamphlets in their lives.

Pendle Hill has been publishing its pamphlet series since 1934, with over 492 pamphlets published to date. This extensive accumulation of Quaker wisdom has the potential to be a vital spiritual resource within our individual lives and the life of our meetings.

This workshop seeks to address common questions around engaging with these Quaker writings. Which pamphlets best speak to my concerns? How can I read pamphlets with my community? How do I integrate pamphlets into my meeting’s religious education program?

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.

Leader(s)

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.

Lucas Meyer-Lee (he/they) is a current Quaker Voluntary Service fellow, working in this capacity as the Education Associate at Pendle Hill. They are a recent graduate of Swarthmore College, where they studied across a wide range of arts and humanities. Lucas has been guided by a lifelong love for visual and literary arts in particular, leading them towards extended engagements with poetry, printmaking, painting, sculpture, graphic design, and boardgame design. In the coming years, they hope to continue their higher education, researching Arabic comparative literature at the graduate level.

Lucas currently serves on the American Friend Service Committee’s Community, Equity, and Justice Board Committee and as the co-coordinator for Friends General Conference’s Adult Young Friend community.

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