Welcome to The Light, where we pause to reflect on what matters most.
Carey Nieuwhof is asking the church to learn from its past. Twenty years ago, Christians debated how to use social media while missing the deeper question of what it would do to human souls. Now, with artificial intelligence reshaping how we think, create, and relate, Nieuwhof warns the same mistake is unfolding again.
That question of technology and the sacred finds a cinematic voice this weekend, as Steven Spielberg releases Disclosure Day, a film exploring how humanity might respond to confirmed evidence of intelligent life beyond Earth. Spielberg says the story presses directly on faith, asking whether our beliefs are large enough to hold the unexpected.
Meanwhile, in Arizona, Christ's Church of the Valley has placed a nine million dollar bid at public auction to secure nearly nineteen acres of land, paving the way for an nineteenth campus in the Gilbert area. It is a reminder that institutional faith continues to grow in physical presence, even as its most urgent questions remain invisible to the eye.
That is this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
