Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour for reflection.
Something unusual is stirring in American Christianity — people are returning to church even as others continue to drift away. The story of decline, so long the dominant one, is no longer the only story. Something in the human longing for community, for ritual, for shared meaning, seems to be pulling people back through those doors.
And yet what they find when they arrive matters enormously. Jennie Lusko speaks to that directly. Her new devotional grows not from polished certainty but from journals kept through genuine struggle. She understands that faith rarely waits for the mess to clear before it asks something of us — and that flourishing, real flourishing, happens in the middle of things.
Woven through all of this is a deeper question about identity and belonging. Anne Wilson's new book asks what it costs to stand apart from the currents of culture and choose a different kind of loyalty. She calls it rebellion, though perhaps it is simply the ancient, quiet act of deciding what you are willing to anchor yourself to when the world keeps moving.
That is this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
