A recent article in The Wall Street Journal <\/em>observes that it took the radio 38 years to reach 50 million people.\u00a0 The television took 16 years; the internet took 4; and Facebook reached the same size audience in only 2 years. \u00a0Those numbers illustrate the speed with which networking and communication is changing; but it also says something about our notions of truth.<\/p>\n For twenty-first century Americans, truth is data.\u00a0 It can be assembled, elaborated, and disseminated.\u00a0 Put it another way, we equate information with the truth.<\/p>\n What is harder to discern is what, out of a veritable mountain of data, is true; and from what we count as true, we find it difficult what to say is the significance of what we know.<\/p>\n In John\u2019s gospel, which makes famous use of the word truth, and, more generally, throughout Scripture, truth is something far more profound than data or information.<\/p>\n Truth lives, loves, and frees.<\/p>\n More on all three truths about truth in the days to come.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A recent article in The Wall Street Journal observes that it took the radio 38 years to reach 50 million people.\u00a0 The television took 16 years; the internet took 4; and Facebook reached the same size audience in only 2 years. \u00a0Those numbers illustrate the speed with which networking and communication is changing; but it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":240,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritual-perspectives"],"yoast_head":"\n