Welcome to The Light.
Tyler Perry has described his new Netflix film, The Gospel of Christmas, as the most difficult project of his career, saying he felt under attack throughout its making. For a filmmaker whose work has long carried faith at its center, that confession carries weight — a reminder that conviction, when it meets the world, is rarely without cost.
From the difficulty of creation, we turn to a harder reckoning. Four women have come forward alleging sexual abuse by a former contract musician and videographer once associated with North Point Community Church in Georgia, founded by Pastor Andy Stanley. The alleged incidents took place roughly twenty years ago. These stories ask us to hold, without flinching, the distance between what institutions profess and what they protect.
And then there is Miquette McMahon, who as a child in Haiti was forced from school because her family could not afford a single dollar. She did not let that silence become her story. She returned, she fought, and she built something from the wreckage of poverty — a life that insists on the dignity of others.
Three stories. Struggle, accountability, and resilience, all arriving in the same quiet hour. That is this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
