Pendle Hill Publications

Lifelong nonviolent activist Dick Taylor has observed that spiritual openings and deep faith experiences in his life have often occurred in the midst of an action.

Quakers are often challenged when people ask us what we believe. Are we Christians? Some Friends would say yes, some no, and many would hesitate – it depends what you mean by “Christian.”

Renee Crauder, familiar to many Friends as a spiritual director and leader of workshops and retreats on the spiritual life, describes her own journey, a decades-long search for a deeper relationship with the Divine.

For Steve Chase, being a faithful friend and follower of Jesus has always meant being engaged in nonviolent revolutionary work to bring about a beloved community which embodies spiritual wisdom, social justice, and ecological sustainability.

How does one find meaning and healing following the suicide of a loved one? Hannah Russell, whose terminally-ill husband ended his own life, offers insights gleaned from her own journey.

Contemporary Westerners are caught between contradictory ways of understanding the world: science and faith are seemingly incompatible. And when we experience spiritual openings, when the Presence breaks through into our lives, what do we make of it?

In her Pendle Hill pamphlet (no. 71), Elfrida Vipont Foulds recreates the summer of 1652.

A discussion of the nature of religious leadings and where we should be looking for them in the modern world.