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. We clearly recognize and name them when we speak of scientific and religious truth, political and marital truth, personal truth and your truth.

Glancing at the images and their captions on the main pages of this website will give you a quick sense of diversity of our truth galaxies and how they shape our lives. To comprehend their vastness and to knowledgably distinguish them, consider taking this grand tour of truth.