Our Truth Galaxies

“What is truth?” Pilate famously asked over two thousand years ago. You may have asked it as well if you ever questioned your beliefs, been caught up in a political argument, struggled in a relationship, or found life meaningless.

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. Years before Pilot questioned Jesus, he would have discussed such issues with his friends, but he couldn’t have appreciated his role in birthing the personal truth galaxy of Jesus, the man he questioned, nor could he have imagined how crucifying his body would be judged centuries later. Back then, there was only the earth and the heavens filled with the sun’s rays during the day and the phases of the moon, the roving planets, and the twinkling stars at night.

Those “twinkling stars” are now known to be suns and galaxies like our sun and our Milky Way all positioned at unfathomable distances in outer space. We are learning the nature of our “stars” through their radiations detected on super-sensitive telescopes. That knowledge, like all knowledge, exists in a mental space filled with patterns of understandings just as dramatic and complex as our starry galaxies and personally much more consequential. These patterns are our truth galaxies.

The header lists six general truth contexts that differ fundamentally in what they address and how. Glancing at the images and captions on the main pages of this website will give you a quick sense of their diversity and how they shape our lives. Your guide is setting up a year of once-a-week LinkedIn and Facebook postings for exploring them that will give you revealing ways of talking about truth in all of its forms. You can have them emailed to you as they become available by joining the Reader List.