Welcome to The Light, your quiet moment of reflection at the top of the hour.
In Sun Valley, California, a congregation marked a quiet but significant turning of the page. Dr. Nathan Busenitz was formally installed as pastor-teacher at Grace Community Church, stepping into a role long held by John MacArthur. These moments of succession carry their own kind of weight — the handing forward of trust, of tradition, of a community's deepest commitments.
Not far from that world of faith, students at Biola University gathered for Gloo's two thousand twenty-six AI Hackathon, describing the experience in terms that surprised even themselves — sanctifying, they said. Amazing. There is something worth sitting with there: young people bringing theological language to technological work, as if to say that meaning does not stop at the edge of a screen.
And then there is Pope Leo the Fourteenth, who underwent successful surgery to remove a small, localized nodule from his lung, and has returned to his room at Gemelli Hospital. A leader of more than a billion souls, quietly healing. The body reminds even the most public of figures that we are all, in the end, fragile and cared for.
That is this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
