Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour of reflection.
The two thousand twenty six midterms have reshaped the conversation around gender and identity, sending several prominent LGBT advocates to the Senate. For those who've championed these causes, the message from analysts is clear: recent progress is not a permanent tide, and the work of sustaining it has only just begun.
Those same exit polls carry another thread worth sitting with. Christians represented a smaller share of the electorate than they did two years prior. White Evangelicals held firm in their Republican loyalties, while other Christian communities drifted leftward, suggesting that the word "Christian" in politics now holds many different meanings depending on who is speaking it.
And that question of meaning brings us somewhere quietly profound. Christianity Today's recent upheaval has prompted a rare and honest inquiry: does evangelicalism, as a unified movement, actually exist? With no shared leadership and no settled theological core, the label may illuminate less than it obscures, pointing to a community still searching for its own reflection.
That's this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
