Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour of reflection.
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case from Kentucky, where two neighbors are seeking to prevent a Catholic organization from building a shrine to the Virgin Mary on its own property. At its heart, the case asks how close faith can come before it touches someone else's sense of peace — and who decides.
From one act of conscience to another, Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde, who stood before President Trump at last January's inaugural prayer service and quietly asked him to show mercy, has announced she will step down in two thousand twenty eight. Her words that day reminded many that the pulpit has always held a kind of stubborn, gentle courage.
And science gently corrects a familiar story this week — the idea that some of us are right-brained and therefore more creative turns out to be far more myth than biology. The brain, it seems, resists the tidy labels we offer it, preferring instead to work as a whole, in conversation with itself.
That's this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
