worldview and perspective on Speaking Truth to Power

My goal is to speak the truth in love. There are a lot of people speaking the truth with no love, and there are a lot of people talking about love without much truth.

God—Father, Son and Holy Spirit—our Loving Creator, Redeemer and Guide: We praise and thank You for being with us wherever we are on the journey of faith; whether we feel You or not—You are here wit...

Tell truth, and shame the devil.

The following article was originally written for the author’s denominational newsletter as part of the celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. It is meant to provide some insights into t...

Introduction During my time in seminary (and the year after I graduated) I spent a lot of time at a church in southern New Jersey. It’s actually how I met Scott Bullock, TPW board member and creator...

Pastor: If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and i...

To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail. You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But n...

A person who wields power cannot see truth; that is the privilege of the powerless.

Truth carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation, but confrontation nevertheless.

Almighty God, you proclaim your truth in every age by many voices: Direct, in our time, we pray, those who speak where many listen and write what many read; that they may do their part in making the h...

In the struggle with falsehood art always did win and it always does win! ... And no sooner will falsehood be dispersed than the nakedness of violence will be revealed in all its ugliness – and violen...

In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.

Every Communist must grasp the truth, `Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun'.

Often, the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

The final thing leaders will need is courage … the willingness to tell the truth, to say what is not politely or politically acceptable. … The most common expression of the courage to tell the truth i...

“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”

Tell all the truth, but tell it slant. . . . The truth must dazzle gradually / Or every man be blind.

Dallas Willard gave a series of lectures on the kingdom of God. In one, he discussed the popularity of the phrase, “The truth will set you free” by putting it in its proper kingdom context: The whole...

Truth consists in the mind giving to things the importance they have in reality.

Spirit of Truth, as we turn to your Word, let the light of your countenance be upon us, that we may come to know more fully the one who is the way, the truth, and the life, through Christ Jesus, our...

Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth.

Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

If your voice is heard by more people because you've earned some kind of name and fame, your silence on an issue of urgent moral importance is even more of a betrayal. Privilege is obligation.

While sexual sin, financial scandals, and toxic work environments hurt pastoral credibility, a more subtle, and probably more common danger is carelessness with the truth. Intellectual integrity matte...

Paradox has been defined as “Truth standing on her head to attract attention."

Lord of grace and truth: You meet us where we are. And when everybody lies to us, you speak with candor and honesty about what’s good, right and true. We can trust you–and we do. That’s why we can rej...

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

Truth’ [is] what we think it is at any given moment of time.