Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour of reflection.
Two artists, Aodhán King and Benjamin William Hastings, have made an album born from separate journeys that somehow needed to converge. King stretching beyond worship, Hastings asking questions too honest for easy answers — together they've found something neither could have reached alone.
That spirit of searching connects, perhaps, to a broader shift happening in American faith. After nearly two decades of declining church attendance and the quiet exodus of younger generations, something appears to be changing. The story of the so-called nones — those who drifted not from God but from institutions — may be entering a new and more complicated chapter.
And while cultural conversations around identity and belonging continue to evolve, two states have chosen June to lift up fidelity as a value worth naming publicly. Arkansas and Utah have proclaimed it Fidelity Month, a quiet counterpoint in a season full of competing declarations — each side, in its own way, asking what commitments we owe one another.
That's this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
