Welcome to The Light, where we pause to consider what stirs beneath the surface of our days.
Thousands gathered on the National Mall this weekend for Rededicate two fifty, a day of prayer and worship ahead of America's two hundred fiftieth anniversary. Attendees spoke of spiritual renewal, of longing for something deeper than politics — a hunger, it seems, that transcends any single tradition.
That hunger for meaning finds a quieter home in the story of Roosevelt Montás, who arrived in New York from the Dominican Republic at age twelve and discovered, quite by accident, a volume of Socratic dialogues left beside a dumpster by neighbors. He went on to champion the great books at Columbia University, arguing that humanistic education does not merely inform young minds — it transforms them, root and all.
And transformation, too, is the thread running through Barney Frank's latest act. At eighty-six, the former Massachusetts congressman is speaking plainly about what he sees as left-wing dogmatism within the Democratic Party — a candor that, as one writer notes, echoes the courage it took him to come out as gay nearly four decades ago. Some truths, it seems, only ripen with age.
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