Live Not By (Your Own) Lies

I don't think I've posted two articles by the same author in a week, but I ran across this after the AI article and thought it was so spot on for the moment for us as Christians.

The author does a great job of warning about Christians creating their own narrative (with embellished facts) to justify fighting the clear lies of a post-truth culture. The money quote is at the end:

If there is any silver lining here, it is this: light will shine brighter as the darkness around it deepens; likewise, Christian witness can shine out more clearly the rarer and more countercultural it is. We have good reason to doubt just how much Christian political action can achieve in a post-Christian society: will we be able to do much to protect the unborn, or incentivize child-bearing, or stabilize the now-fluid concept of gender? Perhaps so; perhaps not. We can, however, commit to doing something truly and transformationally counter-cultural: to refuse to live by lies—not just those of others, but our own as well.

Read the entire article and consider how important it is that we embrace truth wherever it leads (or doesn't lead) us.

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