Our Truth Galaxies

Truth is vast and complex, but “What is truth?” Pilate famously asked that question roughly two thousand years ago. You may have asked it as well if you ever questioned the basis of your beliefs or that of others, been caught up in a political argument, struggled in a relationship, or wondered about the meaning of your life and what you are about.

Rather than attempt to answer that question, let’s just talk about truth: my truth and your truth, marital truth and political truth, scientific and religious truth. These contexts in which your truth personally matters are vast and detailed in complexity. They are the contexts in which truth in our understanding of reality shapes our lives.

Much like the geological formations of the Grand Canyon, these contexts can be readily and rewardingly explored. When exploring the canyon, visitors get a sense of its diversity by flying over it. Information regarding the features making up a particular formation is available at designated vantage points. The forces shaping the canyon are best appreciated by rafting down the Colorado River as it continues to carve its way.

Here are six analogous excursions for exploring Truth. The first a flight over some common contexts in which truth matters. The next four excursions are vantage points from which Truth in social contexts is meaningfully viewed and discussed. In the last excursion you raft down the river of life exploring what it has to say about your vital concerns for life, disclosure, worthiness, relationships, brokenness, and death. Each excursion offers a coherent and reasoned sense of Truth and its role in your world.