Welcome to The Light, where we pause together and let the day breathe.
A couple in the public eye has chosen to share something most keep private — the decision to end a pregnancy after a Down syndrome diagnosis. Jesse and Ashley Ridgway have spoken openly, inviting both compassion and controversy, and in doing so, have placed before all of us the ancient, unresolved question of what we owe one another in our most vulnerable moments.
From a different corner of that same conversation about what we owe each other comes a pastor named Seth Troutt, whose book on authentic masculinity pushes back against voices like Andrew Tate's. He asks whether the version of manhood celebrated in certain online spaces has more to do with dominance than with the quiet, costly kind of love the Gospel actually describes.
And then there is Christine Caine, who speaks of faith not as certainty but as endurance — a tightrope walked in wind. She has spent years sitting with the question of why some belief holds and some does not, and her answer seems to involve less confidence and more willingness to remain present through seasons that stretch longer than we planned.
That is this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
