Welcome to The Light.
Switchfoot's thirteenth album arrives nearly thirty years into their journey, and still they are asking the same essential question — if today were your last, how would you live it? There is something quietly courageous about a band that refuses to trade wonder for nostalgia, choosing instead to press further into the mystery.
From urgency to stillness — pastor and author Max Lucado is inviting Christians to reconsider what Paul actually meant when he wrote "be anxious for nothing." Lucado suggests the verse has long been weaponized into shame, when it was always meant as an invitation toward God, not a verdict against the struggling soul.
And then there is this — a new survey from Arizona Christian University finds that fewer than half of theologically identified born-again Christians believe in the sanctity of human life, even as a majority reject abortion. It is a quiet dissonance worth sitting with, a reminder that our deepest convictions sometimes live below the surface of our stated beliefs, waiting to be examined.
That's this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
