Welcome to The Light, where we pause together at the edge of the day's meaning.
At the Sing! Conference, apologist Wes Huff stood before a gathering of believers and made a quiet but weighty case — that two thousand years of manuscript evidence give Christians genuine reason to trust that the scriptures in their hands carry the voice of the ancient texts faithfully forward through time.
And yet, as if in tender conversation with that certainty, a recent essay in The Atlantic reminds us that the Enlightenment — for all its gifts — left us with a myth: that human reason might one day see reality whole, from the outside, without remainder. Modern science itself, the essay suggests, is what most honestly dismantles that dream.
Into both of these questions about knowledge and faith walks a story that needs no theory. Gladys Staines, whose husband and two sons were burned alive in India more than twenty-five years ago, is once again speaking the word forgiveness — even as the man convicted of leading that act may soon be released from prison.
That's this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
