Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour of reflection.
At the Republican National Committee's first midterm convention in Dallas, faith was not background music but the main melody. Pastor Lorenzo Sewell, who stirred hearts at President Trump's inauguration, returned to that familiar pulpit of public life, calling the gathered faithful to a moment of moral clarity with a sermon he named Enough Is Enough.
That same convention carried another kind of conversation about belief. Congressman Brandon Gill of Texas accused Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico of wearing the Christian faith like a skin suit, a phrase that cuts sharply, raising the older, quieter question of how any of us demonstrate that what we profess has truly taken root inside us.
And then there is Maria Popova, writing from a different kind of pulpit altogether, offering a poem about transformation as release rather than conquest. She asks us not to scrub our hands clean of private wars, but simply to unclench the fist that has come to feel like home, and let the story slip into the river of time, silver and indifferent.
That is this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
