Welcome to The Light, your quiet-hour reflection.
A pastor without a pulpit finds himself scanning groceries — that is the gentle premise of Shelf Life, a new comedy starring Jim O'Heir and Zachary Levi, set to arrive on the Angel platform in two thousand twenty seven. Created by Brian Cates, it asks what ministry looks like when the stage disappears and ordinary life remains.
From the sacred to the surprising — scientists in Ethiopia have documented repeated bonding and sexual behavior between a bull and a male donkey, a cross-species connection that has caught the attention of researchers at Nautilus. It quietly invites us to reconsider how broadly nature writes the grammar of attachment and affection.
And in North Carolina, a legal dispute over The Summit Church's request to rezone nearly one hundred acres in Chatham County continues to unfold. Attorneys for the county insist the case is not about religious freedom but about the boundaries of governmental authority — a tension that touches something ancient about the space between faith communities and the land they seek to inhabit.
That's this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
