November 2014 E-newsletter

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E-newsletter | November 2014

In This Issue

• Artist-in-Residence opportunity
• Pendle Hill’s new Clerk of the Board offers greetings
• Help celebrate our vision of sustainability with wood art!
• David Hartsough’s First Monday Series lecture, Waging Peace, on December 1, 2014
• Thanksgiving: a word of action
• Featured Workshops: Three New Year’s offerings at Pendle Hill
• Pamphlet Spotlight: Howard Thurman’s sublime Mysticism and the Experience of Love
• Pendle Hill job opportunities
• Recipe: Red cabbage slaw

Featured WorkshoPS

New Year at Pendle Hill: Come celebrate the season with us!

Open Heart, Peaceful Mind
Relax into a time of serene rest and renewal, and open to the new year’s unfolding with a retreat that honors your heart, mind, and soul. With Valerie Brown. Read more

Love’s Labour’s Won in Music of the Ages

Embrace diverse musical expressions of affection, rapture, and devotion – from medieval songs of strolling knights through the vigorous styles of today’s composers – with versatile musician and lecturer Karl Middleman. Read more

Creative Reflection: New Year’s Arts and Spirituality

Coached by Melanie Weidner, you will give in to the sacred, creative rhythms of your inner life. And you will express that inspiration through fun, paper arts collage, and simple creative writing. Read more

All three workshops take place December 28, 2014 through January 1, 2015.

Full scholarships available for Quaker artists!

Are you a Quaker Artist who would benefit from being in a spiritual education community while working on a creative project of your choice? Did you know that Pendle Hill provides annual Artist-in-Residence opportunities for ten to thirty weeks through its Minnie Jane Arts Scholarship?

As an Artist-in-Residence, you will be supported to focus on a project in fine arts, crafts, performing arts, creative writing, music composition, or another artistic pursuit that demonstrates commitment to Quaker values, spirituality, ministry, witness and outreach in consultation with Pendle Hill’s Arts and Spirituality Teacher. Read more

A message from Gretchen Hall, Clerk of the Board

For a Quaker institution celebrating 84 years, Pendle Hill is remarkably agile, innovative, and visionary. Grounded in Friends values and depending on sturdy traditions, Pendle Hill offers amazing contemporary educational programs and spiritual renewal. And the campus environment – the place and the people – embraces hearts and spirits.

How could I say “no” to becoming Clerk of the Board for this special place? It is a joy, an honor, and a challenge to serve in this role, following in the capable footsteps of recent clerks Clinton Pettus and Deborah Shaw. I believe fulfilling this role will form an important part of my spiritual journey over the coming months. Read more

Calling all woodworkers!

Pendle Hill has a rare opportunity for people who like to create with wood. If you’ve spent time at Pendle Hill, you’ve likely appreciated our grand American beech tree. “Mama beech” has stood for more than 14 generations – over 300 years. This venerable tree is still healthy and strong but was impacted by storms last year, losing a few large limbs.

In keeping with Pendle Hill’s love of re-use and making art inspired by nature, Grounds Manager Lloyd Guindon put together work crews to cut the limbs into lumber and ready them for creative use. We now invite artisans to turn these fallen beauties from our campus into furniture or art. In addition to the beech, which has exquisite figuring, there’s also wood from a spectacular Kentucky Coffee tree as well as some specially selected walnut and cherry. Read more

Join us Dec. 1 for David Hartsough’s First Monday lecture, Waging Peace

David Hartsough has used his body to block Navy ships headed for Vietnam and trains loaded with munitions on their way to El Salvador and Nicaragua. He has crossed borders to meet “the enemy” in East Berlin, Castro’s Cuba, and present-day Iran. He has marched with mothers confronting a violent regime in Guatemala and stood with refugees threatened by death squads in the Philippines.

He is the answer to Bayard Rustin’s call for “angelic troublemakers.”
Read more

“Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action.” W.J. Cameron

Thank you to all who have supported the 2014-2015 Annual Fund thus far. Your contributions help sustain Pendle Hill’s unique community where we spiritual practice, foster witness for social justice, encourage sustainable living, and create peace by nurturing minds and souls.

In this season of giving thanks, we invite you to consider making a gift that recognizes the value of your own – or a loved one’s – experience at Pendle Hill. Please take action by making a gift online today! Click here for more information.

Thanks to you. You make a difference.

Recipe: Red cabbage slaw

This recipe was recently requested by a former Pendle Hill resident who wanted to recreate its delicious blend of flavors at home. Some of its more surprising ingredients include walnuts, honey, and tahini! Read more