Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour of reflection.
In a Plymouth, Massachusetts courtroom, dozens of women gathered to witness the trial of Lindsay Clancy, who has admitted to strangling her three young children. Their presence raises something difficult and tender — what draws us toward stories of unimaginable loss, and what do we hope to find there beside grief.
From there to a village in the West Bank, where masked Jewish settlers entered the Palestinian town of Qusra, broke into a home, and injured residents with thrown stones. Prime Minister Netanyahu called them a handful of rioters, but the pattern is older and heavier than any handful, and the people of Qusra are left again to reckon with a violence that arrives uninvited at their door.
And in the quieter corners of American life, something is stirring among young people and faith. Time magazine asked whether Generation Z is experiencing a religious revival. The researchers said no, but the data may have missed the rooms where it is actually happening — small, earnest, full of people under thirty looking for something that holds.
That is this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
