Mending the Truth
John 18:28–40 There are certain questions that follow us through life. Questions that settle somewhere deep in the spirit and refuse to let go. For me, one of those questions is the one Pilate asks Jesus in today’s scripture: “What is truth?” Perhaps that question lodged itself in me because of when I grew up. As a member of Gen X, I came of age in a time when many of the things people once believed to be settled truth were suddenly shifting. New discoveries in physics and astronomy reshaped how we understand the universe. Biology and medicine expanded our understanding of human identity and life itself. The more we learned, the more it seemed that certainty was elusive. And so I grew up surrounded by conversations about truth. What is it? Who defines it? Can we trust it? Maybe that’s why this strange exchange between Jesus and Pilate has fascinated me for most of my adult life. The scene unfolds almost like a series...