Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour of reflection.
A new study from the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College finds that nearly half of Generation Z feels less drawn to church because of Christian support for Donald Trump. It is a quiet but significant signal — that when faith becomes visibly entangled with political power, younger generations begin to wonder whether the sanctuary still holds something apart from the world's noise.
That tension between sacred space and outside forces takes a sharper edge in Wyoming, where a pastor on the Wind River Reservation has been asked to leave after calling the Northern Arapaho Sun Dance ceremony idol worship during a sermon. The Arapaho people have responded with protests, reminding us that mission work carried without humility can become its own kind of harm — that listening is sometimes the holiest act available to us.
And from the depths of the ocean, a quieter kind of wonder. Scientists now understand that the tuna's rise as an apex predator had little to do with the asteroid that ended the dinosaurs. It was something slower, more patient — gradual evolution, persistence across deep time, a reminder that dominion is often earned not through catastrophe, but through endurance.
That is this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
