Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour of reflection.
In Rockwall, Texas, pastor Josh Howerton climbed two large ladders mid-sermon to make a point about the Christian life. Critics on social media found it theatrical. Supporters found it memorable. The question underneath both reactions may be the same: what does it take to hold someone's attention long enough to change them?
That question deepens when we consider why some Christians are leaving for Islam. A former Muslim writing in the Christian Post resists the easy answer that they were never truly believers. He argues the Church must begin with repentance from within, not political battles from without. Renewal, he suggests, starts not with winning arguments, but with becoming worth returning to.
And perhaps the most quietly urgent story: researchers and writers are asking what endless scrolling is actually teaching Christians to notice, and to ignore. Not whether the phone is good or bad, but what habits of attention it forms without our consent. Every technology, it seems, is also a kind of curriculum.
That is this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
