Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour of reflection.
Southern Baptist Convention President Willy Rice has asked the denomination's Executive Committee to consider adding a formal article on gender and human sexuality to its foundational confession of faith. Richard Land, who helped draft that confession, says the move stands firmly within Baptist tradition, and that clarity on these questions has rarely felt more necessary.
From matters of doctrine to matters of democracy, Virginia voters will face a defining question this November: whether abortion becomes a constitutional right within the state's constitution. Christian voices across the commonwealth are being called not toward partisanship, but toward presence. For those who believe the unborn bear the image of God, silence, the argument goes, is itself a kind of speech.
And then there is a quieter struggle, one that lives in the chest rather than the public square. A reader writes that she prays, she reads scripture, and still the fear about money will not leave her. Chuck Bentley offers a gentle and honest answer: that faithful hearts and disciplined hands must work together, because anxiety rarely yields to prayer alone when the practical remains unaddressed.
That is this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
