Welcome to The Light, your quiet-hour reflection.
In Mississippi, a congregation grieves. The longtime pianist of New Hebron Baptist Church and her husband were found fatally shot inside their home. A seventeen-year-old hired to help on their farm now faces charges of double murder. A community built around music and worship sits in stunned silence.
From grief, we turn toward the long and difficult road of restoration. Former Newsboys frontman John James has spoken openly about his own unraveling — addiction, infidelity, the slow collapse of a public faith. He speaks now not from a place of arrival, but of return, offering his story as testimony that brokenness is not the final word.
And in the space where faith meets geopolitics, a senior Ukrainian official has called for the Russian Orthodox Church to be removed from the World Council of Churches. The charge is grave — that the church's conduct during the war has violated the very foundations of Christian teaching. It is a question about what it means to belong to a body that claims to speak for peace.
Three stories, each asking something of us. That's this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
