Quaker Life, Light, Winter 2021

Purchase a single copy of the Winter 2021 issue of Quaker Life: A mosaic of Friendly living on the theme of Light.  Many people have experienced this pandemic year as a time of darkness and powerlessness. For many, fear has spread through the air we breathe—fear of a virus, fear of contagion, fear of the other. Fear about job security, fear about the mental health of the isolated elderly and of socially-distant children. Fear for the survival of all those places where people gather together—including our Meetings and churches. Many have felt real despair that life rhythms are not progressing as they usually do—and therefore, not as they should. A very few may have cursed the virus but welcomed the opportunity to spend more time at home. But to judge by newspaper editorials and conversations after Zoom meetings, darkness has been the prevailing tone. The Scriptures have a great deal to say about light and darkness. As a number of our authors in this Quaker Life issue point out, believer