Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour of reflection.
A Catholic exorcist in Nashville has raised a question that sits at the edge of faith and culture — whether a film can carry a spiritual weight that unsettles belief. Father Dan Reehil, responding to reports about Steven Spielberg's forthcoming alien film, suggested the possibility of formally cursed media, inviting us to consider how deeply stories shape what we hold sacred.
From the unseen to the unhurried — landscape designer Piet Oudolf reminds us that beauty does not require bloom. His winter gardens, bare and dormant, carry their own quiet dignity. He says beauty lives in things we would not think to look for, and that to love what appears dead is, to some, a kind of strange courage.
And in a courtroom in Texas, the conviction of Karmelo Anthony in the stabbing death of Austin Metcalf has drawn sharp words from Representative Jasmine Crockett, who questioned whether race shaped the verdict and minimized the nature of the weapon used. A young man is gone. Another faces consequences. The grief in that gap deserves more than politics.
That is this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
