The Right Time to Change: Growing Our Hearts to Meet the Moment

Large meeting of Friends
The spiritual technology of continuing revelation has been essential to Quaker faith from the very beginning, requiring a fundamental openness to change. Yet actually allowing our hearts, minds, and spirits to open to new truths is easier said than done. While the culture we live in promotes “sticking to our guns” when it comes to politics, justice issues, and even interpersonal dynamics and conflict, our faith calls us to be in community in order to ground into deeper discernment.

In this lecture, Quaker artist and facilitator Dwight Dunston will share some ideas on the conditions that catalyze change and readying ourselves for change, how to be faithful to continuing revelation and lead participants through exercises, conversation, and embodied practices to strengthen our capacity to change.

 

Dwight Dunston is a West Philly-based facilitator, hip-hop artist, educator, and activist who has brought his creativity, care, and compassion to schools, community centers, retirement homes, festivals, and stadiums all over the country and internationally. He is a 2006 graduate of Friends’ Central School in Wynnewood, PA, and has worked in Quaker institutions for most of his adult life, recently as a part of the teaching team at Pendle Hill’s 2025 Spring Term. Along with his bandmate, Brian Jordan, Dwight was the Friend in Residence at Haverford College in 2019 and he has done workshops and concerts at Quaker Schools and organizations all over, including Pennswood Village, Germantown Friends School, Moorestown Friends, and Carolina Friends School. Dwight is a Level II certified Kingian Nonviolence trainer, completing over 40 hours of training. He is also a trained mediator. You can hear Dwight in conversation with spirit-led artist and activist on Pendle Hill’s podcast, The Seed: Conversations for Radical Hope.