Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour of reflection.
Rachael Denhollander is raising a difficult question that communities of faith cannot afford to set aside. When a South Carolina Christian school dismissed a teacher for raising concerns about a convicted sex offender working near children, the response she received was that holding his past against him was not a Christian thing to do. Denhollander, a tireless advocate for abuse survivors, reminds us that grace and accountability are not opposites. Protecting the vulnerable is itself a profound act of love.
And yet, alongside that hard reckoning, there is a quieter question worth sitting with. What are we becoming through the ordinary, unremarkable hours of our days? One writer, driving toward a new city and a new life, found himself asking exactly that. The roads we travel, the habits we keep, the attention we give, these are not just things we do. They are, slowly and surely, the person we are making of ourselves.
Then there is Kathie Lee Gifford, speaking openly about spiritual encounters she describes as deeply real, including a childhood meeting with Jesus and moments she understood as demonic. Whatever one makes of such testimony, her willingness to speak of the invisible world with such candor invites us to consider how profoundly the unseen shapes a human life.
That is this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
