Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour for reflection.
A survey of more than one thousand young Christian men has surfaced something worth sitting with. Church attendance, it turns out, did not predict antisemitic attitudes. Theology did. What people believed about God's promises to the Jewish people shaped their views far more than how often they showed up on Sunday. That distinction matters deeply.
And it connects, in a quiet way, to a personal story making its way around this week. A man who followed every rule, earned his scholarship, built his career, tithed faithfully, found himself stripped of his job and his son in the same season. What he discovered was that his faith had been transactional all along. Grace, he learned, does not negotiate.
Which brings us to perhaps the most searching question of all. When people walk away from Christianity, research and honest reflection suggest they are rarely walking away from Christ himself. They are walking away from us. The checklist we hand others matters far less than the life we quietly live before them.
That is this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
