Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour of reflection.
Evangeline Lilly has stepped away from Hollywood, and she's speaking openly about why. The actress found herself drawn toward stories of deeper purpose, and her work on a hand-painted biblical epic about the fall of the Second Temple feels, she says, like an expression of what matters most to her now. Faith, she tells us, has become her compass.
There is something quietly remarkable in learning that Nintendo, decades ago, published an official Japanese guidebook for The Legend of Zelda featuring Link kneeling in prayer before a crucifix inside a cathedral. It was not a fan creation. It was real, printed and distributed, a small window into how spiritual imagery once moved freely through even the most unexpected corners of popular culture.
And in Los Angeles, a mother and her daughters arrived at the Hollywood Walk of Fame to leave flowers at Dolly Parton's star, only to find it had been vandalized. There is something that aches in that image, the simple act of tenderness interrupted, a reminder of how fragile our gestures of gratitude can be in a careless world.
That is this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
