Welcome to The Light, where we pause and consider what the day is asking of us.
In Nigeria, a lawyer who advocates for abducted Christian women and girls says that United States military involvement over the past year has done little to slow the persecution. The violence continues to escalate, and her words carry the weight of communities still waiting to be seen.
From the particular suffering of one place, we turn to the quieter work of forming the next generation. Writers at The Gospel Coalition are asking whether the ancient practice of catechesis — the slow, deliberate passing of belief from one person to another — might be exactly what children need when the surrounding culture feels unmoored. Sunday school, they suggest, was a good idea that may have crowded out a deeper one.
And then there is the burrito. A twenty-dollar burrito became a flashpoint this week, not because of what it cost, but because of what it revealed — that the affordability crisis in America is shaping political futures, and that the distance between a price tag and a person's dignity is shorter than we sometimes admit.
That is this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
