A Great People to Be Gathered: The View from Pendle Hill
Parker Palmer Saturday, 13 November 2010
Parker J. Palmer lived and worked at Pendle Hill as a student, dean, teacher, and writer in residence from 1974 to 1985. He is the author of numerous articles and books including A Hidden Wholeness, Let Your Life Speak, The Active Life, and The Courage to Teach, and is a founder of the Center for Courage and Renewal. He has been featured on Public Television’s Bill Moyers Journal, Public Radio’s Speaking of Faith, and in numerous periodicals.
Parker J. Palmer's Lecture: A Great People to Be Gathered: The View from Pendle Hill - Listen here"During the eleven years I spent at Pendle Hill (1974-85) as a student and then as a staff member, I had a chance to see at least a bit of what George Fox saw when he climbed England's Pendle Hill in 1652. A “great people” came through Pendle Hill while I was there, came as students, sojourners and conference attenders. Many of them were gathered in the spirit of the place – a spirit of worshiping, seeking, working, studying, and living together in community.
"In the twenty-five years since I left Pendle Hill, I have learned first-hand of hundreds of thousands of people who want and need everything Pendle Hill has to offer. In this talk, celebrating “the view from Pendle Hill” on the occasion of its 80th birthday, I will reflect on the transforming impact this Quaker living-learning community had on my vocation and on how I have tried to take some of the things I learned there into the larger world, where an even “greater” people wait to be gathered."
Parker Palmer
Parker J. Palmer's Lecture: A Great People to Be Gathered: The View from Pendle Hill - Listen here
Stephen G. Cary Memorial Lecture Series
The Stephen G. Cary Memorial Lecture was endowed by Norval and Anne Reece and established in 2004 in concert with the publication of a book of Steve Cary’s writings: The Intrepid Quaker: One Man’s Quest for Peace.
Pendle Hill Pamphlets by Parker Palmer
In the Belly of a Paradox by Parker Palmer. Pendle Hill Pamphlet #224. A study of contemplation in a life of action. more
A Place Called Community by Parker Palmer. Pendle Hill Pamphlet #212. The possibility of community in homes, neighborhoods, schools, places of work, wherever people live. more
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