TEXT Did you ever know something – know it in your bones? What I mean is the kind of certainty deep down where we know such things. But then, you discovered it wasn’t true? Truth. Oh, how we … [Read more...]
Facts Pointing the Way
Facts are measurable and verifiable. By themselves they do not tell the truth, but by themselves they often point to the truth. Here are some facts – measured, verified, and irrefutable. These are … [Read more...]
How to Win Back Your Heart (Not for the Faint of Heart)
There is an experience in seminary I want to slice open and so share its fruit with you. But I doubt I can do it justice. It has to do with the Bible – with entering into the text for the first … [Read more...]
Aristotle, Wittgenstein, and Rudy
“Truth isn’t truth” is just too ripe and juicy not to write about this week. Especially because, surprisingly, I might agree with Rudy Giuliani. Only those in the midst of a personal news blackout … [Read more...]
The Difference Between Truth & Fact
I have been thinking a lot about truth lately. When we hear from talking heads and politicians about fake news or such-and-such politician lying, it often has to do with facts more than truth. We … [Read more...]
The End Of Truth As We Know It
This post appeared first in The Finger Lakes Times, this week's installment in the "Denim Spirit" … [Read more...]