Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour for reflection and meaning.
After nine months of silence and uncertainty, Kevin Rideout — an American missionary and pilot abducted by armed militants outside his home in Niger last October — has been released from captivity and is now in the care of United States officials. For his family, nine months of not knowing has given way, finally, to relief.
From the long waiting of one man's return, we turn to a quieter kind of searching. Greg Sutton, a church elder and lay preacher, set out not to write a book but simply to understand what he truly believes. What began as personal inquiry became something offered outward — a resource for Christians willing to sit with the questions too many congregations quietly set aside.
And in a stranger corner of our shared world, researchers are raising alarms about a growing online market for mummified human remains. Beyond the ethical weight of trading in the dead, there are real health risks — ancient pathogens, disturbed materials, consequences that reach across centuries into living hands.
Three stories, each asking something of us — about endurance, about honesty, about the boundaries we owe the long departed. That's this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
