Welcome to The Light, where we slow down long enough to think.
At a live gathering in two thousand twenty six, voices like Nancy Guthrie and Jen Wilkin reminded a room full of listeners that endurance in faith is not a feeling but a practice, something chosen again and again through suffering, through abundance, and even through the heartbreak of watching those we admired stumble and fall.
From there, we turn to something darker on our screens. Lance Oppenheim's film Primetime, starring Robert Pattinson as a reimagined Chris Hansen, has drawn sharp criticism for its moral confusion, not just in what it depicts, but in how it seems to invite the audience to lose their footing alongside its characters, mistaking murkiness for depth.
And threading quietly beneath both of these is a question Sherry Turkle has spent a career asking. As artificial intelligence grows more fluent in the language of intimacy, more voices are warning that what feels like connection may in fact be a slow withdrawal from the harder, richer work of being truly known by another human being.
That is this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
