Pendle Hill Quaker Center for Study and Contemplation
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Pendle Hill is a Quaker study and retreat center located on a 23 acres (93,077.8 m²) campus in suburban Wallingford, Pennsylvania
, near Philadelphia. It was named for the hill
in Lancashire
, England
, that the first Quaker preacher
described as the site of his calling to ministry.
Founded in 1930, Pendle Hill offers programs open to people of all faiths. These programs include a residential study program, short-term courses and retreats, conference services, publications, leadership training, and a walk-in bookstore. The residential study program includes a curriculum of worship, work, study, and service; people typically enrol for three to nine months. Short-term courses of two to seven days are offered throughout the year on themes including introductory Quakerism, nonviolent change, sustainable living, arts and spirituality, and bodywork.
The campus includes lawns, buildings, worship spaces, a large organic garden, and a walking path lined with trees.
For many years Pendle Hill has offered public lecture series. In response to the terrorism of September 11, 2001, Pendle Hill had a series of lectures and workshops concerning peacemaking. Recent series have focused on nurturing individual and corporate spiritual life.
Wallingford, Pennsylvania
Wallingford is an unincorporated community in Nether Providence Township, Delaware County in Pennsylvania, USA. Founded in 1687, it is named for Wallingford, England...
, near Philadelphia. It was named for the hill
Pendle Hill
Pendle Hill is located in the north-east of Lancashire, England, near the towns of Burnley, Nelson, Colne, Clitheroe and Padiham, an area known as Pendleside. Its summit is above mean sea level. It gives its name to the Borough of Pendle. It is an isolated hill, separated from the Pennines to the...
in Lancashire
Lancashire
Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England. It takes its name from the city of Lancaster, and is sometimes known as the County of Lancaster. Although Lancaster is still considered to be the county town, Lancashire County Council is based in Preston...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
, that the first Quaker preacher
George Fox
George Fox was an English Dissenter and a founder of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers or Friends.The son of a Leicestershire weaver, Fox lived in a time of great social upheaval and war...
described as the site of his calling to ministry.
Founded in 1930, Pendle Hill offers programs open to people of all faiths. These programs include a residential study program, short-term courses and retreats, conference services, publications, leadership training, and a walk-in bookstore. The residential study program includes a curriculum of worship, work, study, and service; people typically enrol for three to nine months. Short-term courses of two to seven days are offered throughout the year on themes including introductory Quakerism, nonviolent change, sustainable living, arts and spirituality, and bodywork.
The campus includes lawns, buildings, worship spaces, a large organic garden, and a walking path lined with trees.
For many years Pendle Hill has offered public lecture series. In response to the terrorism of September 11, 2001, Pendle Hill had a series of lectures and workshops concerning peacemaking. Recent series have focused on nurturing individual and corporate spiritual life.
Publishing
Pendle Hill also serves as a publishing house, and one of its most visible programs is its pamphlet series, which produces five pamphlets a year. Recent topics have included spiritual nurture, Quaker practice, and pacifism. As of April 2011 there have been 412 such pamphlets, and many are classics in Quaker spirituality. The Pendle Hill Bookstore is a useful resource for Friends looking for Quaker resources perhaps not easily found in their local community.Directors
[Incomplete list]- Henry Theodore Hodgkin (1877-1933) . Director 1928-1933 .
- John Hughes
- Howard BrintonHoward BrintonHoward Haines Brinton was an author, professor and director whose work influenced the Religious Society of Friends movement for much of the 20th century...
- Richard Gregg
- Anna & Howard BrintonHoward BrintonHoward Haines Brinton was an author, professor and director whose work influenced the Religious Society of Friends movement for much of the 20th century...
- Dan Wilson
- Daniel SeegerDaniel SeegerDaniel Andrew Seeger is a retired American non-profit-business administrator, and a Quaker religion and social-issue writer, who was earlier a defendant in a case on conscription of pacifists that was decided by the Supreme Court....
, retired 2000. - Ken and Katharine Jacobsen
- Lauri Perman, Director from May 2007 .