Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour of reflection.
Three brothers from a family where piano lessons once felt like punishment have found their way back to music — and to something deeper. Strings & Heart, the Christian indie act fronted by Angelo Espinosa, discovered that the instruments they once wanted to burn became the very things carrying their faith forward.
From individual healing to communal flourishing, a California church has joined the Blue Zones Project, weaving together spiritual practice and physical wellbeing in a way that asks us to consider how a congregation might care for the whole person — body, breath, and belonging — not just the soul on Sunday morning.
And in Indiana, a quieter but consequential conversation is unfolding. A lieutenant governor and an Islamic advocacy group are pressing against one another over whether Muslim calls to prayer may be silenced in public spaces, and whether this nation's identity belongs to one tradition alone. It is a question about sound, yes — but beneath it, a question about whose voice the public square was ever truly built to hold.
That is this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
