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In North Korea, a man named Hyun-Seung Lee was twenty-nine years old when the world he had always known began to crack open. A friend sent to a prison camp, executions drawing closer, and something irreversible happened — he saw the truth, and could not unsee it. He and his family chose to give up everything rather than continue living inside a lie. There is something ancient and quietly heroic in that.
Closer to home, a shooting near a gathering of political figures has drawn attention not only to the act itself, but to the currents that may have carried it. Commentators are examining the ideological and spiritual landscape from which such violence can emerge, asking what we cultivate in our rhetoric, and what we are therefore willing to harvest. It is a question worth sitting with.
And in a quieter register, a teacher of apologetics reflects on which argument for faith he finds most compelling — and surprises his students with the answer. It is a reminder that the most honest intellectual journeys are rarely the loudest ones. Certainty, it turns out, is often less interesting than the questions that precede it.
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