Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour of reflection.
Researchers are reminding us of something ancient and essential — that children learn language and story not through screens, but through the warmth of human presence. Eye contact, shared laughter, the rhythm of a voice nearby. These things shape minds in ways no algorithm can replicate.
From the world of faith and accountability, the daughter of the late televangelist Jim Bakker has offered a public apology to those harmed by her family's ministry, and urged support for LGBT communities. It is a rare and tender thing — when inherited legacy meets honest reckoning, and someone chooses repair over defense.
And from the deep past, science offers us a strange and humbling portrait of resilience. When the dinosaurs vanished, a massive fungus quietly spread across the darkened forests, becoming the earth's patient inheritor. Life, it seems, does not mourn for long. It simply finds another form, another way forward.
That's this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
