Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour of reflection.
In Georgia, Senator Jon Ossoff drew the full force of MAGA anger after telling an Atlanta crowd that the president sleeps through meetings, golfs, and trades stocks rather than tending to the work of governing. It is a small moment, perhaps, but it points to something larger — the way political fury now ignites not over policy, but over the personal.
From the noise of politics to the quieter turbulence inside a congregation — Brian Tome, pastor of Crossroads Church, is returning to the pulpit this weekend after a suspension stemming from what church leaders called inappropriate physical humor, involving a riding crop struck against a man. Communities of faith, like all communities, must reckon with what they will hold and what they will release.
And then, from the soil of central Turkey, something ancient and luminous — a thin sheet of gold, roughly fifteen hundred years old, bearing what archaeologists believe may be a passage from scripture. Someone once folded that word close to their body, as protection, as prayer. The impulse to carry meaning against the skin has never really left us.
That is this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
