Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour of reflection.
In Washington this week, President Trump gathered with others to honor the late Senator Lindsey Graham, calling him a giant of the United States Senate and a true American original. It is a moment that asks us to pause and consider how we hold the lives of public figures — complicated, full, and finally, still.
From that stillness, we turn to a story of conviction and consequence. A devout father of eleven has reached a settlement with the Department of Justice, years after federal agents arrived at his home before dawn to arrest him for pro-life activism outside an abortion clinic. The case stirred deep questions about where the boundaries of protest, faith, and federal authority truly lie.
And then, something lighter drifting through — a new trailer for the fifteenth film in the Air Bud franchise has arrived, sending many of us back to the nineteen nineties, when sports movies asked us to believe in golden retrievers playing basketball and somehow, we did. Perhaps that willingness to believe the implausible is itself worth sitting with.
That's this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
