Quaker Life, Abide, Spring 2021

Purchase a single copy of the Spring 2021 issue of Quaker Life: A mosaic of Friendly living on the theme of Abide.  This issue, our authors consider the concept of abiding in Christ, an aspect of faith that we often first encounter in John’s gospel. In his Bible study, Kelly Kellum includes a word study of the Greek word meno, usually translated as abide, and of the multiple meanings and nuances of that word. Knowing that word more deeply can help us to expand our faith understanding of abide and abiding.  Several of our authors write about the way in which abiding in Christ re-orients our responses to the human world and social order. Darlene Rushby, in hymn-like fashion, writes that we only rightly order our own concerns when we are anchored in God’s presence. John Jeremiah Edminster encourages us to discipline ourselves to focus our will on abiding in the Vine Christ. As we do so, we discover the Vine Christ abiding in us, as well, and working through us, giving us the right words t