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

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 my dad. Strangely, unlike in Isaiah 6:6-8, I was not given the needed words. I was still seeking them 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. The words started coming when I saw the basic difference as not between science and religion, but between science and art because of their differing interests in understanding fact and coordinating feeling.

I was clarifying my understanding of the difference when the courtship letters of my parents surfaced. While getting to know each other and seeking ways to witness to their faith, they had inadvertently and 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 intimately tied to the witness they were seeking, I decided to publish and market them aided by my website, A Journeyman’s Guide to Our Galaxies of Truth .

Once I started searching for a familiar image that could suggest not only the breathtaking entirety of our truth galaxies but also their endlessly intriguing details, the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River came quickly to mind, along with its different ways of being explored—each suggesting a helpful entry point into the website.