Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour of reflection.
Chick-fil-A CEO Andrew Cathy is speaking openly about a significant shift in how the company carries its faith into the world. After years of public controversy surrounding same-sex marriage, Cathy says the chain now focuses on welcoming every customer through the simple grace of food and service, letting hospitality speak where argument once did.
That tension between conviction and welcome echoes into another corner of faith culture, where documentary filmmaker Jonathan Allen Wright is pulling back the curtain on contemporary Christian worship music. His series asks a quiet but pointed question: when songs of devotion are shaped by commercial interests, who is actually being glorified, and does the congregation ever truly know?
And beneath both stories runs something Augustine understood deeply. In his Confessions, he wrote that the present moment is nearly impossible to hold, that we live suspended between memory and anticipation. A recent reflection from The Gospel Coalition draws on that insight to ask what it means to truly rest on the Sabbath, to act, as the piece puts it, as God once acted, releasing the grip of past and future and simply being.
That is this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
