Our Truth Galaxies

“What is truth?” Pilate famously asked roughly 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. These contexts in which truth matters are vast and complex. Much like the formations of the Grand Canyon carved by the Colorado River, they can be readily and rewardingly explored.

When viewing the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River, visitors get a sense of its scale and diversity by flying over it. Pamphlets explaining particular features are available at designated vantage points. The forces actually shaping the canyon are best appreciated by rafting down the river with a guide familiar with its pools and rapids.

Here are six analogous excursions for exploring the Grand Canyon of Truth (GCT). The first is a flight over some familiar situations in which our truth expressions inherently differ. The next four excursions are vantage points from which marital, political, institutional, and revelatory truth is meaningfully viewed and contemplated. In the last excursion you raft down the River of Truth as you explore and discuss what its spirit has to say about your vital concerns for life, disclosure, worthiness, relationships, brokenness, and death. Each excursion promises its own enlightened sense of truth and its role in your world.