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Six traits of a pluralist Christian vision of human flourishing
Can Christianity make universal claims without being exclusivist?
by Miroslav Volf and Matt Croasmun
American houses built on sand
Barbara Kingsolver shows that without truth, foundations crumble.
by LaVonne Neff
Living the truth, not just believing it
Well-aligned spokes make a bicycle wheel true. Truthful living gives a person credibility.
I need poetry more than ever
These are not poetic times. We live and breathe prose.
Truth and revelation
Our truth is the sort of truth that acknowledges that we see through a mirror dimly.
The virtues we need in a post-truth world
Telling the truth requires more than right thinking. It requires being a particular sort of person.
"I have a philosophy about life,” a friend said recently. “The world would be a much better place if people took a moment to let people know about the positive impact they have had on others’ lives. Too much time is spent on negativity. The good in people simply isn’t recognized; too often it is taken for granted.”
The other day I was sitting in a coffee shop and couldn’t help overhearing an interesting and intense debate on the other side of the room. An older gentleman was trying his best to aid an inquisitive college student who had some hard-hitting questions. She asked about scripture, about authority and about the church. One question kept popping up: “What is the difference between truth for you, truth for me and truth with a capital T?”
In a culture supersaturated with information, overwrought and overstimulated by media, none of us is immune to the allure of truthiness. With our attention stretched thin and largely confined to the surface, we are forced back on our intuition, to some reflexive sense of what “feels true.”
Enter The Da Vinci Code. With the benefit of hindsight we can say the novel got noticed because of able marketing, and because it played into the manic milieu of truthiness.