Welcome to The Light, where we pause together in the quiet between the noise.
This week in Christian history holds a quiet convergence worth sitting with. The first Mother's Day church service, the burning of Martin Luther's books in England, and the Supreme Court's Wisconsin versus Yoder decision all fall within these same calendar days — moments where faith and institution, courage and resistance, have long pressed against one another.
And into this week steps Jennie Lusko, co-pastor and mother, who speaks ahead of Mother's Day about losing her five-year-old daughter and discovering that grief does not cancel faithfulness. Her forthcoming devotional, Fresh Mercies Every Day, carries that hard-won wisdom — that hope is not the absence of sorrow, but something that somehow lives alongside it.
Perhaps it is no surprise then that new research from Barna finds a growing number of pastors reporting less satisfaction in their calling, even as their mental health has improved. There is something tender in that paradox — feeling more whole as a person while feeling less certain the work itself is reaching where it needs to go. Meaning, it seems, remains its own kind of labor.
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