Welcome to The Light, your quiet-hour reflection.
After more than two decades, Mel Gibson has wrapped filming on The Resurrection of the Christ in Italy. The long-anticipated follow-up to The Passion of the Christ has moved from rumor into reality, carrying with it questions about how sacred story, suffering, and hope find their way through the medium of cinema.
From the screen to the sanctuary, former megachurch pastor Todd Wagner has spoken plainly about what he sees as a spiritual leadership problem within many churches today. His concern is not with institutions as structures, but with the quiet erosion of genuine formation — the kind of leadership that tends souls rather than simply manages them.
And across the Atlantic, Finnish parliamentarian Päivi Räsänen is carrying her case to the European Court of Human Rights, after her nation's Supreme Court found her guilty of hate speech over a pamphlet written twenty-two years ago. Her appeal raises enduring questions about where religious conviction ends and harm begins — a line that courts and consciences continue to draw differently.
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