World Quaker Day

Join Friends after daily worship, as our Friend in Residence Jennifer Kavanagh shares on the theme of “being now,” reflecting on everyday life as worship, slowing down, and taking time out.

Leader

Jennifer Kavanagh will be 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/.