Welcome to The Light, your quiet-hour reflection.
In San Francisco, a question of conscience played out on baseball caps. Several Giants players wrote a verse from Genesis onto their MLB-issued Pride hats, an act Senator Scott Wiener called defacement. Others called it devotion. The distance between those two words is where something worth sitting with lives.
That tension between visibility and belief finds a quieter echo in the story of a teenage girl, now brain dead after attempting a viral challenge, her father saying she had always longed to be TikTok famous. She will now give life to others through organ donation. Fame sought her in one direction. She leaves a mark in another entirely.
And from the shores of ancient story, researchers have received official permission from Turkish authorities to conduct the most comprehensive scientific investigation ever undertaken at a boat-shaped geological formation in eastern Turkey, long speculated to be connected to Noah's Ark. Whether or not the mountain yields what some hope for, the hunger to find proof of the sacred in the physical world is itself a kind of testimony.
That is this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
