Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour of reflection.
Pope Leo the Fourteenth continues to recover at Rome's Gemelli Hospital, where the Holy See reports he had a good second night following successful lung surgery on Tuesday. He rose this morning and had breakfast — small details, but ones that carry the weight of a watching world.
From the particular to the eternal — theologian Randy Alcorn has been exploring what we can and cannot know about the life to come. In conversation with The Gospel Coalition, he speaks of heaven not as an escape from this world, but as its continuation and renewal — a vision that asks us to take the present more seriously, not less.
And yet even our most sacred practices are being quietly reshaped. A thoughtful writer raises a deep concern about pastors turning to artificial intelligence for sermon preparation. The worry is not efficiency, but erosion — that the slow, searching labor of wrestling with a text is itself the formation, and outsourcing it may cost something we cannot easily name.
That's this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
