Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour of reflection.
David Byrne, musician and restless thinker, has turned his attention to the cosmos — specifically to Vera Rubin, the astronomer whose patient observations revealed that most of the universe is made of something we cannot see. In his new book Sleeping Beauties, Byrne honors her work as a kind of awakening, a reminder that the invisible shapes everything.
From the unseen forces of the universe, we turn to the unseen forces some believe move through human souls. A reflection circulating among Christian communities asks believers to reconsider how they understand spiritual warfare — suggesting that fear, superstition, and misplaced focus can distort a tradition meant to ground people in courage and clarity rather than anxiety.
And we mark the passing of Jim Bakker, the televangelist who built a television empire and a sprawling theme park, before a financial scandal sent him to prison. He was eighty-six years old. His life held both extraordinary reach and profound collapse — a story, like so many, about the distance between what we proclaim and what we practice.
That's this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
