Welcome to The Light, where we pause together in the quiet hours.
Steinbeck's East of Eden, that vast meditation on human freedom and inherited sin, is coming to Netflix as a limited series. The story of the Trask family, wrapped around the ancient wound of Cain and Abel, asks whether we are truly capable of choosing goodness, or whether we simply inherit our darkness.
That question of choosing goodness brings us to Ohio, where a Christian ministry serving survivors of sex trafficking has reached a settlement of one hundred twenty thousand dollars with a county that had barred them from its foster care program over their faith-based hiring practices. The tension between institutional neutrality and religious conscience remains one of the unresolved aches of public life.
And across the Atlantic, the Church of Scotland is reporting something quieter but perhaps more telling — a surge of new converts since the pandemic, what one clergyman is calling a deep spiritual hunger. People who had never considered faith found themselves standing at its door, wondering what was on the other side.
Three stories, each asking in their own way what we owe each other, and what we owe ourselves. That is this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.["https://relevantmagazine.com/culture/tv/netflix-is-turning-john-steinbecks-cain-and-abel-inspired-east-of-eden-into-a-limited-series/","https://www.christianpost.com/news/ohio-county-settles-with-ministry-banned-from-foster-care-system.html","https://www.christianpost.com/news/church-of-scotland-sees-surge-of-converts-amid-spiritual-hunger.html","https://www.christianpost.com/news/ufc-328-fighters-glorify-jesus-christ-after-winning-their-fights.html"]📺 The Light · 10 PM Update · player loading…