October 2014 E-newsletter

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E-newsletter | October 2014

In This Issue

• Three full scholarships available for Quaker artists, bible scholars, and writer/resesearchers!
• Pendle Hill to receive Medallion of Integrity from the Center for Courage and Renewal
• Young Adult Friends at the intersection of Faith and Action
• You can help us support our vision!
• Renew, Learn, Re-center, Inspire
• Jeff Dudiak named 2014-2015 Cadbury Scholar!
• Remembering Mary Wood
• Pendle Hill thanks Clinton Pettus
• Featured Workshop: Open for Transformation: Being Quaker
• NEW October 2014 pamphlet: Paul Christiansen considers peaceable means for living
• Pendle Hill job opportunities
• Recipe: Gingerbread pumpkin scones

Pendle Hill has scholarships!

Pendle Hill offers scholarships of various amounts for people to live on campus as artists in residence, authors, scholars, and students of the Bible.

Other scholarships are available as part of the admissions process for our 2015 programs and conferences. Click here for more information.

The Center for Courage and Renewal honors Pendle Hill with its Medallion of Integrity

Pendle Hill will be presented with a Medallion of Integrity by the Center for Courage & Renewal's facilitators Carol Kortsch and Valerie Brown on Sunday, November 2, 2014.

Created and presented by facilitators prepared by the Center for Courage & Renewal, the Medallion acknowledges the qualities of agency, authenticity and courage that distinguish the spirit, community, and leadership alive at Pendle Hill. And, it is particularly significant to recognize the formative role that Pendle Hill played in shaping Parker Palmer, who founded the Center for Courage & Renewal in 1997. Read more

Emily Higgs reflects on where Faith meets Action for Young Adult Friends

Our colleague Emily Higgs recently contributed an article to Friends Journal. Read her account of our Young Adult programming below.

"Like many Friends who found Quakers on their own or later in life, I will never fully know whether my commitment to peace and justice led me to Quakerism, or whether my love of Quaker theology and the testimonies sparked my commitment to peace and justice. Either way, the two are deeply intertwined for me, and the answer is probably not that important." Read more

The Inner Life and the Outer Life together: Can you help us support this vision?

We hope you will support us today to make it possible for more people to experience life-changing learning and spiritual development here at Pendle Hill. Contributions to the Pendle Hill Annual Fund help us maintain the quality of personal exploration, Spiritual deepening, education and community experience for which we are known.

Our visitors and students seek to be at Peace, and prepare to inspire Peace in the world. Will you help us support people who want to live into this today?

Renew, Learn, Re-center, Inspire

In September, we shared news of renewal in Spirit’s care here at Pendle Hill, and we invited your feedback, which resulted in an outpouring of support, as well as questions, comments, and reflections. Your care and input influences us as we plan and we have read every message carefully. If you haven't yet had an opportunity to read about our recent community activities and new programs, we invite you to do so. Read more

Introducing our 2014-2015 Cadbury Scholar, Jeff Dudiak

As this year's recipient of the Henry Cadbury scholarship, Canadian Jeff Dudiak plans to perform a study around the ways in which Quakers divergently think about, and speak about (or don't), God.

"I am from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, where I am a philosophy professor at the King’s University.  I have a poet wife, Julie, and a baseball playing, snowboarding 13 year old son, York.  I am a lifelong Friend, raised in the Evangelical tradition, but having worshipped the whole of my adult life with liberal Friends."
Read more

Remembering Mary Wood

On Saturday, September 27th, a bulb planting ceremony took place in honor of Mary A. Wood, a longtime Friend and advocate of Pendle Hill, who died on September 21, 2014, at the age of 88.

A resident of Kendal at Longwood, Mary was a life-long and active Quaker and a lover of silence and solitude. Her capacity for deep listening and her keen intellect made her a friend to many. She is and will be missed.

Recipe: Gingerbread pumpkin scones

Now you can try these deliciously decadent scones at home. Have one warmed with your morning coffee, or take one along for a late afternoon snack. Read more