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Murdering Truth

Posted on June 29, 2018 by Rosalind C Hughes

It seems as though when we have beaten truth into our own image, and still it insists on speaking its own mind, we wash our hands of it. We make enemies of purveyors of inconvenient information. We shoot the messenger. Continue reading →

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Cleopas and Fred on the road back from Chicago

Posted on April 30, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

Encountering Cleopas and Fred on the road back from Chicago this week, I feel as though their message to me is not to be afraid to continue to risk the truth. Continue reading →

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Truth, love, and justice

Posted on February 12, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

Jesus has some advice: tell the truth. Let your yes be yes, and your no be no. Do not bluster, do not brag. Tell the truth, says our Way, our Truth, and our Life. Continue reading →

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Truth

Posted on January 27, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

  Truth is not proud, running his calloused hands across the welt of guilt, knowing good from evil, deliverance from dependence on temptation to sway the scales. Truth is not innocent of the burden of each deficit of decency, quavering … Continue reading →

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