Welcome to The Light, where we pause together and let the world breathe for a moment.
This week marks a quiet convergence of Christian memory, as we recall the passing of theologian D. James Kennedy and the closing of Billy Graham's remarkable sixteen-week crusade in New York City, two figures whose lives remind us that faith, when lived publicly, leaves a long and searching echo.
From memory, we turn to a more urgent question stirring through university halls. A writer in The Atlantic describes walking across campus and feeling surrounded by a quiet crime spree, not of violence, but of artifice, as students reach habitually for artificial intelligence to do the thinking their education was meant to cultivate. What we lose, she suggests, is not just honesty, but the slow, difficult, irreplaceable work of becoming someone who knows how to struggle toward an answer.
And yet, in that same spirit of honest struggle, a mother writing for The Gospel Coalition offers something tender and practical, describing what it means to care daily for a child with disabilities, and gently asking the rest of us to show up not with pity, but with presence, with a willingness to carry what is heavy alongside someone who cannot set it down.
That is this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
