Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour of reflection.
A new Pew survey reminds us how fractured the landscape of faith and politics has become. White Evangelical Protestants remain the only religious group where most members approve of President Trump, though even that support has fallen twenty points. Every other major religious community, the survey finds, leans toward Democratic candidates in the midterms.
From the fractures within institutions, we turn to something far darker. Investigators in Philadelphia are sifting through the property of a pornographic filmmaker suspected of being a serial killer. Bones have been recovered from the backyard. At least seven women are connected to what authorities are calling a house of horrors, and the search continues.
And in a quieter but no less consequential corner of human life, Pastor Douglas Wilson has stirred conversation among Christians by arguing that servant leadership in marriage is itself a sin. He contends that a husband's truest service to his family is found in firm leadership, not in yielding to his wife's desires. It is a claim that cuts to the heart of how we understand love, power, and care.
That is this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
