People come to Pendle Hill for many reasons.
Some resident students bring projects to work on, and find inspiration and support. Others are taking sabbaticals from teaching, ministry, or another profession and gain renewal and deeper inspiration for their work. Pendle Hill takes seriously the body as well as the mind and spirit; the prophetic and the contemplative; the world around us as well as the inner life. Our curriculum focuses on the whole person as an engaged participant in the world.
Student Experience
Students, teachers, and staff live together in community – a precious living laboratory for recognizing and reflecting that of God in one another. We support each other in many ways: with caring, wisdom, wide-ranging experience, conversation, challenges, prayers, and more. Life-long friendships are formed among us.
Worship
Life at Pendle Hill is centered in our daily Quaker meeting for worship. This half-hour silent gathering may be enriched by spoken ministry, prayer, and song as the Spirit moves those present.
Learn more: Spiritual life at Pendle Hill
Work
At Pendle Hill everyone shares in the work of the household, particularly work that makes our community meals possible. Shared work expresses our commitment to the community as a whole as well as to each other.
Study
Courses at Pendle Hill create a space for spiritual deepening, intellectual stimulation, and the possibility of genuine personal transformation.
Learn more: View the course catalog.
Service
Worship and study find expression in service and social witness. Pendle Hill's educational program supports a "contemplative/active" community where we strive to live the Quaker testimonies concerning peace, integrity, equality, and simplicity.
