Welcome to The Light, where we pause together in the quiet between the noise.
A decision made in haste was unmade with equal speed this week, as President Trump reversed course on a Pentagon plan to broadcast the execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan by firing squad. The proposal to livestream the December third execution drew swift and serious backlash, raising questions about spectacle, justice, and where the line between accountability and something darker truly lies.
From the weight of that moral gravity, we turn toward something almost playfully cosmic. Scientists and designers have built a virtual world where light travels at just three miles per hour, letting visitors walk through the strange predictions of Einstein's relativity as lived experience. Colors shift, time bends, and the familiar dissolves into something luminous and strange, reminding us how much reality depends on the speed at which we perceive it.
And in quieter corridors of faith, author Henry Hastings describes a journey spanning more than two decades in ministry, a slow turning from the belief that spiritual gifts ceased with the early church toward an openness that they continue still. His book UnRedacted invites readers to sit with the parts of Scripture that have been, perhaps, too quickly set aside.
That's this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
