Welcome to The Light, where we slow down long enough to think.
A conversation recorded at this year's Gospel Coalition gathering asked something quietly radical: what does it actually look like when a church holds together people who are genuinely different from one another? Panelists spoke honestly about the discomfort woven into biblical diversity, and why the gospel demands we stay in that discomfort rather than retreat from it.
From the challenge of community, we move to something smaller in form but no less rich in weight. A reflection on new children's picture books reminds us that the best writing for children is not diminished writing. It is distilled writing, the way a long simmer concentrates flavor, leaving only what is most true and most nourishing.
And then there is the quieter, more interior question that perhaps holds all of this together. What does it mean to be filled with the Spirit? One writer revisits the question they first heard in college, and finds that Scripture answers not with a feeling to chase, but with a life to inhabit, steadily, faithfully, over time.
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