by Pendle Hill
Quakers and other seekers explore visions of the world growing up through the cracks of our broken systems. The Seed is a podcast from Pendle Hill, a Quaker center, open to all, for Spirit-led learning, retreat, and community in Wallingford, PA. This project was made possible by the generous support of the Thomas H. & Mary Williams Shoemaker Fund.
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May 28, 2024
<p>In our final episode of Season 4, Valerie Brown, an author, Buddhist-Quaker Dharma teacher, and executive coach, discusses yielding to the realignment of grief, the relationship between self care and social justice, and how Quaker communities are being called to transformation in our current political moment. <br/> <br/><br/><b>Valerie Brown</b> is an author, Buddhist-Quaker Dharma teacher in the lineage of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh and the Plum Village tradition, Courage & Renewal facilitator, and executive coach specializing in leadership development and mindfulness practices with a focus on diversity, social equity, and inclusion. A former lawyer and lobbyist, Valerie transformed her high-pressure, twenty-year career into serving leaders and nonprofits to create trustworthy, authentic, compassionate, and connected workspaces. Valerie’s unique and extensive training blends social justice, evidenced-based mindfulness practices, leadership development, and spiritual growth. </p><p>Of Afro-Cuban descent, Valerie is a member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) and lives and tends a lively perennial home garden in New Hope, PA.</p><p>To learn more about Valerie's work, visit <a href='https://valeriebrown.us/'>https://valeriebrown.us/</a><br/><br/>Order and read more about Valerie's newest book, Healing Our Way Home, here: <a href='https://pendlehill.org/product/healing-our-way-home-black-buddhist-teachings-on-ancestors-joy-and-liberation/'>https://pendlehill.org/product/healing-our-way-home-black-buddhist-teachings-on-ancestors-joy-and-liberation/</a></p><p><br/><br/>The transcript for this episode is available on https://pendlehillseed.buzzsprout.com/<br/><br/>----<br/><br/><em>The Seed</em> is a project of Pendle Hill, a Quaker center, open to all, for Spirit-led learning, retreat, and community. We’re located in Wallingford, Pennsylvania, on the traditional territory of the Lenni-Lenape people. <br/> <br/>Follow us <b>@pendlehillseed </b>on <a href='https://www.facebook.com/PendleHillSeed'>Facebook</a>, <a href='https://www.instagram.com/pendlehillseed/'>Instagram</a>, and <a href='https://twitter.com/PendleHillSeed'>Twitter</a>, and subscribe to The Seed wherever you get your podcasts to get episodes in your library as they're released. To learn more, visit <a href='https://pendlehill.org/learn/podcast/'><b>pendlehill.org/podcast</b></a><b>. <br/><br/>This project is made possible by the generous support of the Thomas H. & Mary Williams Shoemaker Fund.</b></p>
May 14, 2024
<p>Rabbi Mordechai Liebling draws on his decades-long experience in interfaith and interracial activism and organizing to explore the role of clergy in organizing and nonviolent direct action, the power of shared heartbreak across difference, and the current fight for a ceasefire in Gaza. <br/><br/><b>Rabbi Mordechai Liebling</b> is the Senior Advisor for POWER Interfaith, the largest faith-based community organizing group in Pennsylvania. Prior to that he founded and directed for ten years the Social Justice Organizing Program at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. Previously, he served as the executive vice president of Jewish Funds for Justice (now Bend the Arc); and was the executive director of the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation for 12 years. He leads workshops on Race, Antisemitism and Christian hegemony; and on the Work That Reconnects developed by Joanna Macy.</p><p><br/></p><p>He was a co-founder of T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights; currently he serves on the boards of Faith in Action (formerly PICO), the Faith and Politics Institute and The Shalom Center. He is married to Lynne Iser, and they have five adult children. He answered the clergy call to come to Ferguson, Mo.; Standing Rock, N.D.; and Charlottesville, VA amid their confrontations. He is a member of Rabbis 4 Ceasefire.</p><p><br/><br/>The transcript for this episode is available on https://pendlehillseed.buzzsprout.com/<br/><br/>----<br/><br/><em>The Seed</em> is a project of Pendle Hill, a Quaker center, open to all, for Spirit-led learning, retreat, and community. We’re located in Wallingford, Pennsylvania, on the traditional territory of the Lenni-Lenape people. <br/> <br/>Follow us <b>@pendlehillseed </b>on <a href='https://www.facebook.com/PendleHillSeed'>Facebook</a>, <a href='https://www.instagram.com/pendlehillseed/'>Instagram</a>, and <a href='https://twitter.com/PendleHillSeed'>Twitter</a>, and subscribe to The Seed wherever you get your podcasts to get episodes in your library as they're released. To learn more, visit <a href='https://pendlehill.org/learn/podcast/'><b>pendlehill.org/podcast</b></a><b>. <br/><br/>This project is made possible by the generous support of the Thomas H. & Mary Williams Shoemaker Fund.</b></p>
April 30, 2024
<p>Felix Rosado is an abolitionist and restorative justice practitioner committed to ending human caging in all its forms. When 'justice' has become synonymous with cops, courtrooms, and cages, how do we begin to envision new ways of truth-telling and reckoning with harm? In our fourth episode of Season Four, Felix and Dwight explore this question, the griefs and gratitudes of freedom, the spiritual groundings of the fight to abolish prisons, and what it means to be 'free-ish.' <br/><br/><b>Felix Rosado </b>escaped a death by incarceration sentence after 27 years via governor clemency in 2022. He is cofounder of Let’s Circle Up, a restorative justice (RJ) education project. He currently serves as Program Coordinator of Healing Futures, an RJ youth diversion program with the <a href='https://www.yasproject.com/'>Youth Art & Self-empowerment Project</a> (YASP) and adjunct professor of RJ at Chestnut Hill College. He also is a founding member of the Coalition to Abolish Death By Incarceration (CABDI) and committed to ending human caging in all its forms.<br/><br/></p><p>Felix will be a facilitator for <a href='https://pendlehill.org/events/continuing-revolution-2024-restorative-justice-as-spiritual-practice/'>Continuing Revolution 2024: Restorative Justice as Spiritual Practice</a>, a hybrid conference for young adults (ages 18-35) interested in exploring the connections between their political, interpersonal, and spiritual lives. Join us June 7-10 at Pendle Hill outside Philadelphia, Beacon Hill Friends House in Boston, Friends Place in DC, or online. We hope you'll join us! Learn more and register at <a href='https://pendlehill.org/events/continuing-revolution-2024-restorative-justice-as-spiritual-practice/'>https://pendlehill.org/learn/</a> </p><p><br/><br/></p><p><br/><br/>The transcript for this episode is available on https://pendlehillseed.buzzsprout.com/<br/><br/>----<br/><br/><em>The Seed</em> is a project of Pendle Hill, a Quaker center, open to all, for Spirit-led learning, retreat, and community. We’re located in Wallingford, Pennsylvania, on the traditional territory of the Lenni-Lenape people. <br/> <br/>Follow us <b>@pendlehillseed </b>on <a href='https://www.facebook.com/PendleHillSeed'>Facebook</a>, <a href='https://www.instagram.com/pendlehillseed/'>Instagram</a>, and <a href='https://twitter.com/PendleHillSeed'>Twitter</a>, and subscribe to The Seed wherever you get your podcasts to get episodes in your library as they're released. To learn more, visit <a href='https://pendlehill.org/learn/podcast/'><b>pendlehill.org/podcast</b></a><b>. <br/><br/>This project is made possible by the generous support of the Thomas H. & Mary Williams Shoemaker Fund.</b></p>
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