Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour of reflection.
Something shifts in a city when those sworn to protect it are simply not there in enough numbers. Los Angeles, like many American cities, faces a quiet crisis in police recruitment — a profession its own chief calls the hardest in America, struggling to find those willing to carry its weight.
From one kind of institutional reckoning to another — Elizabeth Holmes, once the face of Silicon Valley's boldest promises, now serves an eleven-year sentence for fraud. And yet something unsettling lingers: in a culture grown comfortable with grift, her crimes feel less singular than they once did. Perhaps that says more about us than about her.
And across the water, in the vast Diocese of Alotau-Sideia in Papua New Guinea, a bishop travels three days by boat to reach his people. Only five percent of his diocese is land. He walks while praying because if he stands still, the mosquitoes will not allow it. There is something clarifying about faith practiced at the ends of the earth.
That's this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
