Welcome to The Light.
Neuroscientist Susana Carmona is asking us to reconsider something fundamental. Her research reveals that pregnancy and motherhood physically reshape the brain — not diminishing it, but refining it. What we have long dismissed as forgetfulness may in fact be a profound neural reorganization, a mind remaking itself for new purpose.
From the intimate to the communal — a Lifeway Research study finds that roughly two thirds of regular churchgoers struggle with basic biblical literacy, failing a knowledge quiz drawn from the very text central to their faith. It raises a quiet but searching question: what does it mean to gather around a story you have not yet fully entered?
And in grief that asks nothing of us but witness — Pastor Mike Stone and his family are mourning the death of his daughter Sarah, who passed after years of living with chronic illness. She was nineteen. There are moments when theology falls silent, and what remains is simply the weight of a life, and the people who loved it.
That is this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
