We invite you to learn more about Pendle Hill, a Quaker center fostering Spirit-led learning, retreat, and community. We are committed to creating peace with justice in the world by transforming lives through our programs, services, and campus. 

In this info session, you can learn about the QLC and Pendle Hill partnerships, and other upcoming residencies and learning opportunities at Pendle Hill. QLC and Pendle Hill staff will share about our ongoing Quaker Institute and Quaker Leadership Conference collaborations. Pendle Hill Director of Education will also share about other Pendle Hill resources and opportunities: residences, including the Spring Term Resident Student Program, Pendle Hill’s artist and scholar residencies and Friend-in-Residence program; our publications and podcast; and other online and on-campus upcoming events.

A core component of Pendle Hill’s educational program is providing religious seekers, leaders, writers, artists, scholars, theologians, and activists with extended residencies to conduct their creative projects in the context of a spiritual community rooted in a daily rhythm of common meals, work, worship, and contemplation.

Leaders:  QLC co-directors Della Stanley-Green and Andy Stanton-Henry and Pendle Hill Education Director Frances Kreimer

Panel: The Pros and Cons of Seminary ~ Is seminary worth it? What happens afterward?

Join us for a panel on The Pros and Cons of Seminary! December 9 from 7:30-8:30pm ET on Zoom.

Our panelists will share about their experiences in seminary, the effects that has had on their lives and careers, things they wish they had known, and advice for prospective students. There will be time for Q&A, so bring your questions!

Register here: www.publicfriends.org/events/p/panel-the-pros-and-cons-of-seminary

THE PANEL

C. Wess Daniels is the William R. Rogers Director of Friends Center and Quaker Studies at Guilford College. He is a recorded Quaker minister committed to liberation theology, anti-imperial expressions of Christianity, and working towards the revitalization of faith traditions that embody love and justice in the world. He is the author of A Convergent Model of Renewal: Remixing The Quaker Tradition in Participatory Culture (2015), Resisting Empire: The Book of Revelation (2019), contributor to We Cry Justice: Reading the Bible with the Poor People’s Campaign (2021), and the co-editor with Rhiannon Grant of the Quaker World (2022).

Rachel Guaraldi is a member of Beacon Hill Friends Meeting and lives in Strafford, Vermont where she works part time as a community chaplain and pastor of the United Church of Strafford. Rachel is a ESR graduate and a board certified interfaith chaplain with experience working in hospitals, community care settings, and hospice.

Christina Repoley received her MDiV in 2011 from Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta. Immediately following seminary, she founded Quaker Voluntary Service and served as its Executive Director until 2018, when she transitioned to the Forum for Theological Exploration, where she is currently the Vice President of Program. Christina is a recorded minister.

This event is brought to you by Public Friends and the Quaker Leadership Center.