Putting together excursions for exploring the grand canyon of truth in any comprehensive and coherent sense is a tall order. Here are a few events that led to my attempt.

The first was Mom’s giving me $5 for reading the entirety of the Bible, which I did twice by the time I was fifteen. It left me questioning the nature of God, revelations, and miracles. These questions simmered in my mind while I earned a Bachelor of Arts in zoology, acquired a Ph.D. in experimental statistics, and took a job in pharmaceutical research. 

Then one night, while reading George Mead's Mind, Self, and Society, my questions faded in a revelatory moment that changed my sense of self and how I saw my world. I was flooded with understandings that I hoped to share with scientists like me and farmers like Dad. Strangely, unlike Isaiah in chapter 6, verses 6-8, I was not given the needed words. I was still seeking and finding some of them in the world’s scriptures when my niece asked me, “How can you believe in evolution and the Bible at the same time?” 

That set me wondering wherein lay the difference in these two types of truth. More words started coming when I realized that the basic difference was not between science and religion, but between science and art because of their differing interests in understanding fact and coordinating feeling.

I was justifying my understanding of the differences between science, art, religion, and philosophy when the courtship letters of my parents surfaced. In those letters, while getting to know each other and seeking ways to witness to their faith, they had inadvertently extensively answered a question that I had put to Dad as a teenager: Why are you a Christian? Once it dawned on me that the letters were the witness they were seeking, I decided to publish them.

Along the way, words for my truth evolved as well as described in the preface to the third volume. There you can see allusions to much of what is in my Journeyman’s Guide to Our Truth Galaxies. The remaining words of the website came when Heidi McIntyre said the site lacked a clear entry point. Was it a philosophy platform, a spiritual reflection space, a book ecosystem, or a guiding-spirits framework? That I had been organizing Excursions for Exploring Some of the Principal Formations in the Grand Canyon of Truth answered for me my need for a clear entry point.