Hospitality

In-Person at Powell House
June 2-4, 2023

Our keynote speaker is Rhiannon Grant, who will be joining us online from the UK. Her remarks will be about moving, in our communal homes, beyond more chairs and a bigger table to a new menu: embracing deep hospitality and exploring our changing Quaker community as we welcome different forms of theological and social diversity.

Susan Wilson will join Windy as the co-leader for this retreat, exploring this message in embodied, curious ways. Expect this to be a time of discernment and exploration.

“Testimonies to Mercy” is a seven-part traveling series based on the lecture Better Than Good: Seven Testimonies for Quaker Caregiving, given at Pendle Hill in June of 2021 by Quaker practical theologian and public minister Windy Cooler.

Facilitators

Susan Wilson (she/her) is a former Co-Director of the Ben Lomond Quaker Center, and member of the Plainfield Monthly Meeting (Vermont), New England Yearly Meeting.

Rhiannon Grant (she/her) teaches for Woodbrooke as well as researching and writing about Quakers. Her recent books include Quakers Do What! Why? (Christian Alternative, 2020) and Hearing the Light: the core of Quaker theology (Christian Alternative, 2021). She also edited The Quaker World (Routledge, 2022) with Wess Daniels.