Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour of reflection.
In Fort Worth, Texas, a founding pastor named Alonzo Diego Fuller remains in custody on charges of sexually assaulting a former parishioner, even as a judge has reinstated his bail. He may now lead his congregation only through a screen — a strange and sorrowful distance between a shepherd and his flock, and a reminder of how swiftly trust, once broken, reshapes the space between people.
That tension between leadership and humility found its own voice this week at the Southern Baptist Convention, where outgoing president Clint Pressley delivered his final address with a striking charge — learn to hate pride. He warned that pride quietly erodes relationships, weakens communities, and dims whatever witness a church hopes to carry into the world. It is a hard word, and perhaps the most necessary kind.
And then there is Bill Maher, who spoke this week of Charlie Kirk with something unexpected — grace. Maher said he was grateful to have interviewed Kirk before his death, and lamented that critics had reduced a complicated man to a monster. Whatever divides us, he seemed to suggest, rarely survives a genuine conversation.
That's this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
