Category: Constructing Truth

Bottom line: I began to see that because I thought the Bible was universal, I was blind to how I brought my cultural blinders and bias into it. I began to realize that the power of the Bible was in its particular, biased perspective. God …

So I have my beliefs (the threads of the web I have long held) and I have the perspectives and experiences of others (the fence posts and branches that keep me connected to this physical and social world). I need to discuss how they each …

I want to take a minute to name some of my particular-ness, some of the bias I carry into this. I have steadily moved over the course of my life from a conservative political view to a progressive one. I think it might be fruitful …

One practical test of ourselves is this. When a data point or someone’s story is different from my own, when in fact it challenges and confronts my own perspective or view of reality—do I look for ways to discount it? Or do I look for …

Unlike a web view of knowledge, in the world of foundationalism, when a disrupting event happens, the framework often pushes us to a much different response. When we believe we’ve been building on the right foundation, when we’ve been using our building materials—the ones that …

Now, imagine you’re quietly humming along as life goes by, building your web as you always have. And then something disrupting happens.  Maybe the main fence post supporting most of your web rots and falls down, tearing many web strands connected to it.  Maybe you …

Instead of imagining we are digging down to find supposed universal foundational truths that are untarnished by any bias, we need a new construct. Imagine a spider web. Or envision a braided-rope hammock.  Each belief and value and philosophy we hold is a strand of …

I would suggest that our biggest task to tackle is not uncovering bias in the media. It isn’t finding bias “out there.” Our biggest challenge is finding and naming bias in ourselves.  It is figuring out how to be who we are, in all our …

Again, the heart of the Christian faith is a rejection of Plato’s view of the world. The heart of our faith is Jesus. Jesus is the universal divine “form”—in fullness—taking on flesh, and matter, and humanity—in fullness. Jesus is what Universal Truth and Divinity look …

Foundationalism in itself is not completely unhelpful. When we do truly find a universal foundation point, there is so much that can (and is) built upon that to better our lives. The geniuses who found principles of air lift and drag coefficients allow engineers to …