Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour for reflection.
There is an old word making its way back into modern conversation. Sabbath, once the quiet province of the devout, is now being reconsidered by anyone exhausted by constant connectivity. What draws people back to it is not religion alone, but a hunger for rest that goes deeper than self-care — a longing to simply stop.
That tension between the ancient and the urgent lives in our conversations about artificial intelligence as well. Christians, and many others, are being asked to resist the twin temptations of panic and uncritical celebration. The wiser path, some suggest, is measured discernment — two cheers, perhaps, but not three — honoring what these tools offer while remaining clear-eyed about what they cannot replace in us.
And in the quieter corridors of publishing, that same spirit of discernment is at work. The Gospel Coalition opens its nominations for the two thousand twenty six book awards, inviting voices across eleven categories — from popular theology to cultural apologetics — reminding us that words, carefully chosen, still matter enormously in how we make sense of the world.
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