Faculty
Francisco Burgos
Pendle Hill’s Executive Director, will lead the retreat. Francisco has facilitated spiritual retreats and programs for wide-ranging audiences in both English and Spanish, including many at Pendle Hill. He was a De La Salle Christian Brother, serving in the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, and Costa Rica. Francisco is a member of Harrisburg Friends Meeting and has attended several monthly […]
Finding Your Way: A Spring Term in Resident Community, Kairos on the Mountain,
John Gruber
John Gruber is a science teacher and researcher at Friends’ Central School, where he has worked since 1991. He was an environmental analyst at Abt Associates in Cambridge, Massachusetts and a science teacher in rural Zimbabwe before coming to Friends’ Central’s science department. John attended Brown University and received his AB in Environmental Studies with a focus in biology, geology, and […]
Thomas Gates
Thomas Gates is a member of Lancaster Friends Meeting in Lancaster PA. He is the author of several Pendle Hill Pamphlets, as well as Turning Toward the Victim: The Bible, Sacred Violence and the End of Scapegoating in Quaker Perspective (Wipf and Stock, 2025). He was the Kenneth Carroll Scholar for Biblical and Quaker Studies at Pendle […]
Dawn Weisbord
Dawn Weisbord, an acupuncturist, herbalist, and QiGong instructor, attends Haverford Friends Meeting. She has studied, practiced, and taught Qigong and acupuncture for nearly thirty years. In recent years, she has been exploring how the Quaker practices of silent sitting, gathered silence, expectant waiting, and continuing revelation relate to Qigong practices.