Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour of reflection.
At the fifty-seventh Dove Awards in Nashville, artists like Tauren Wells and Matthew West gathered not just to celebrate music, but to speak of something older and more urgent — the call to unity. Wells invoked the familiar words: they will know us by our love. In a fractured moment, that is no small thing to say aloud.
That same tension between identity and love is moving through the wider church. Ten years after Pope Francis offered Amoris Laetitia, his meditation on family life, Pope Leo the Fourteenth has convened church leaders from around the world to ask what that document still means — and what it has yet to become. Some documents are not finished when they are written.
And in a quieter corner of this conversation, the Evangelical Press Association, after more than seventy-five years, has voted to leave the word evangelical behind, renaming itself the Christian Communicators Network. The members said simply: times are changing. There is something worth sitting with in that — the way a name can carry weight, and the moment a community decides to set it down.
That is this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
