Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour of reflection.
A new survey from Pew Research has offered a quiet surprise. Generation Z, long assumed to be the most comfortable with artificial intelligence, has shifted. Fifty-five percent of Americans under thirty now say they feel more concerned than excited about AI entering daily life. Something in the youngest generation is asking harder questions than we expected.
From technology to the octagon, fighter Jalin Turner finished his UFC bout in thirty-nine seconds this past Saturday in Philadelphia, then stood in the spotlight and credited not his training, but his faith. He admitted he once thought thanking Jesus after a fight was the corniest thing a person could do. Now he calls it joy. Something changed in him, and he wasn't shy about saying so.
And in a different corner of faith's public square, pastor Mark Driscoll has raised a pointed question, drawing on the letters to Titus and First Timothy, asking whether obesity ought to disqualify someone from pastoral ministry. It is a question that will unsettle many, and perhaps that discomfort is itself worth sitting with for a moment.
That is this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
