Welcome to The Light, where we pause to consider what the day is asking of us.
A woman drove to an abortion facility nine weeks and five days into her pregnancy, frightened and uncertain. What followed was a reversal — medical, emotional, spiritual — that she describes as saving her daughter's life. Her story invites us to sit with the complexity of fear, choice, and what we reach for when we feel we have no other way.
From individual conscience to communal belonging — a writer who has survived spiritual abuse asks why she has not walked away from the Church. Her answer is not simple loyalty. It is something harder: a faith rebuilt on clearer expectations, deeper discernment, a willingness to love an institution while refusing to be broken by it again. There is wisdom in that kind of staying.
And then, violence interrupting ceremony. A gunman brought an abrupt end to the White House Correspondents dinner Saturday evening, and President Trump, returned safely to the White House, spoke briefly — calling on Americans to resolve their differences peacefully. In a moment of shock, that appeal to restraint carries a particular weight, whatever one makes of the man offering it.
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