Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour of reflection.
Some are asking whether the NAACP, one of America's most storied civil rights institutions, has lost its footing. Critics argue that recent protests involving student-athletes place young people in the middle of political battles they never signed up to carry, risking futures for causes that may serve the organization more than the students themselves.
From institutional credibility, we turn to something more personal — the question of whether sharing one's faith crosses a line. A growing number of voices say no, that genuine evangelism, offered in love and honesty, is not coercion but conversation. To speak truth as you understand it, they argue, is among the most human things one can do.
And then there is a quieter kind of truth — the kind found in a parent watching their child in uniform on Memorial Day. One mother reflected this week on what it means to see freedom not as an abstraction but as a living, breathing commitment her own daughter chose to make. Freedom, she reminds us, has always had a face.
That is this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
