“Truth” Articles

Left to our tendencies toward comfort, we often use each other’s love to insulate us from the harshness of the world: we hide behind false encouragements.

Till We Have Faces expresses the way in which Christian storytelling at its best has the potential to work upon people.

The Mysterious Benedict Society poses deep, perhaps insoluble, questions related to the subject of truthfulness.

Can The Mysterious Benedict Society, a book that skewers screen-based media culture, be fully realized on just such a screen?

Stories aren’t “Christian” or “not Christian.” They either tell the truth or they don’t.

WW84 asks us to confront the truth that while we have some desires that are good, even good desires can become dangerously disordered.

The thing about lies is that eventually they have to give out. No matter how badly liars want truth to be relative—it isn’t.

Erin and Hannah wrap up their For God and Country series with a discussion about the power and privilege of voting and a side interview with Alan Noble about the Christian’s call to vote for truth.

In writing fiction, Taylor Swift has somehow managed to ponder the deeper truths of love and loss and life.

Chernobyl has acted as a reminder to me that social media hasn’t made people crazy, paranoid, or stupid—people have always been willing to spread misinformation, lies, and conspiracies when it suits an agenda like a political or religious ideology.

If there’s anything we’re capable of, it’s getting creative with power. And the power over what appears to be truth is a terrible power indeed.

We need to learn how to cut through the B.S. and un-deceive ourselves daily to gain a clearer vision of both God and the world.

In our enthusiasm to defend truth, we have denied a doctrine at the heart of our faith: that we are finite, sin-corrupted creatures with senses and intellect that are both inherently limited by our creatureliness and marred by the introduction of sin into the world.

It’s perpetually difficult for those who love their creativity to understand and to reconcile it with their dark sides.

Chernobyl is an excellent show… with its emphasis on the net effect of human sin—the disproportionately catastrophic results of seemingly small errors.

When we continue feeding our desire for easy answers, we lose the ability to approach complexity with the appropriate tools.