Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour of reflection.
In Europe, a troubling silence has settled over the halls of power. A letter now accuses the European Union of looking away as the Armenian government moves against leaders of the Armenian Apostolic Church — one of the world's oldest Christian communities. When institutions entrusted with human rights choose quiet over conscience, we are invited to ask what solidarity truly costs.
From questions of power, we turn inward. Writer Mark Batterson asks us to reconsider what a miracle actually is. Scripture overflows with the extraordinary — seas parting, the dead rising — and yet so many faithful people wait a lifetime for one answered prayer. Perhaps, he suggests, we have been measuring the sacred with the wrong instruments entirely.
And in a quieter register still, Jordan Peterson has shared word that his recovery continues slowly, his days remaining very limited. Yet he has returned to writing, and in that return finds something he calls relief — the particular relief of being, once again, creative and useful. There is a wholeness in that word that deserves a moment of stillness.
That is this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
