Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour of reflection.
Mike Posner, the artist who once sang about a pill in Ibiza, has arrived somewhere altogether different. After what he describes as a series of uncanny, Christ-centered moments, he gave his life to Jesus nearly a year ago, immersed himself in writers like C.S. Lewis, and recently was baptized. He says his world has grown much, much bigger.
That sense of expansion sits in interesting tension with a story unfolding in Washington state, where a federal court has revived a Christian therapist's challenge to a law banning so-called conversion therapy for minors. The case, reignited after a Supreme Court ruling, asks where the boundary falls between professional care, religious conviction, and the dignity of young people still finding themselves.
And scientists are asking a different kind of question about time and the body. New voices in longevity research are making a compelling case that women deserve to be at the center of the conversation, not the margins. Their biology, their lifespan patterns, their particular vulnerabilities, may hold the very keys to understanding how all of us age.
Three stories, one thread: the long, unfinished work of becoming. That's this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
