Politicians so often want to use “the truth,” deny the truth, manipulate and manage the truth, and seek to discredit any notion of the truth that is a threat to their power. But indeed, that is the very nature and purpose of the truth in our public life—to hold power accountable and even transform politics with an appeal to deeper and higher realities, to the things God cares about, to the common good. And that is why the truth indeed is a “threat” to power and why the current administration in the United States is so afraid of the truth.
