Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour of reflection.
Theologian John Piper is inviting Christians to reconsider what happens in the breath between this life and whatever follows. He rejects the notion of soul sleep, that long unconscious waiting, and insists instead that believers pass immediately into the presence of Christ. It is a small word, immediately, and yet it carries enormous weight for those who sit with grief.
From questions of eternity, we turn to the shelves. Nautilus has gathered ten books stirring anticipation this May, ranging across quantum physics and the strange new intimacy of artificial companions, to something as grounded and startling as a seagull attack. It is a reminder that wonder arrives from every direction, the cosmic and the coastal alike.
And then there is this. Evangelist Perry Stone is claiming that a group of pastors were recently briefed by United States officials, asked to prepare their congregations for the disclosure of UFOs and extraterrestrial life. Whether one receives that claim with skepticism or curiosity, it raises something genuinely old, the question of how any tradition holds its shape when the horizon suddenly expands.
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