Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour of reflection.
At this year's ARC Conference, commentator Eric Metaxas stood before a British audience and made a passionate case that Christianity is not merely a faith tradition but the very architecture of Western liberty itself, urging citizens to resist what he sees as the quiet erosion of free expression across the Atlantic.
From institutions to individuals, the question of who gets to speak and who gets silenced flows naturally into the life of Georgia O'Keeffe, who offered something quietly radical when she said that success is irrelevant, that the true work of an artist is making your unknown known while keeping the unknown always just beyond your reach, a discipline as much spiritual as creative.
And yet within communities of faith, questions of voice and vocation remain unresolved. The Presbyterian Church in America gathered in Louisville this week and voted against allowing women to serve as ordained deacons, even as the same assembly advanced a report examining the complicated relationship between Christianity and nationalism, two conversations that may be more entangled than they first appear.
That is this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
