Last Sunday after Pentecost; Christ the King; 21 November 2021; Proper 29B (RCL); 2 Samuel 23:1-7; Psalm 132; Revelation 1:4b-8; John 18:33-37.
Too bad the lectionary didn’t include the next sentence in John’s Gospel. Pilate asks, “What is truth?” That’s where we seem to be as a nation; truth is contested. The Enlightenment was supposed to fix that problem. Descartes sought a kind of truth that could be deduced from first principles, and hence would not be contested. But we have discovered recently that even the logic by which truth is deduced from those first principles (indeed, even the first principles themselves) is socially constructed and conditioned.
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