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The Truth Question: How to Seek Truth When The President
Normalizes Lies
Jim Wallis

Editors note: This is part three of an eight-part series
exploring the eight Jesus questions all of us must face,
highlighted in Jim Wallis's new book Christ in Crisis:
Why We Need to Reclaim Jesus (HarperOne), available now. These
next eight weeks will help us go deeper than the headlines, to
find our way back to Jesus in the midst of this intensive and
exhausting news cycle. 

Want to hear this in an audio format instead? We just launched an
eight-episode podcast series called Reclaiming Jesus
Now that features Allison Trowbridge and William Matthews
speaking with Jim Wallis about these questions and their
relevance today.

Jesus directly links "truth" with "freedom." And Jesus'
commentary on truth and freedom is the most important one for
this moment's and this week's crisis for democracy in the
United States of America.

"You will know the truth and the truth will set you free,"
says Jesus (John 8:32).

The impeachment inquiry happening now is not really about
different interpretations of what are "high crimes and
misdemeanors" or interpretations of facts; but the denial and
cover up of the truth itself --what happened on Trump's phone
calls to foreign leaders to ask for help with his reelection and
the attempt to hide those appalling and unprecedented facts.

As I wrote in Christ in Crisis: Why We Need To Reclaim
Jesus, what's going on with this administration's assault on
the truth is far deeper than simply all the presidential lies --
which have accumulated at an unprecedented pace, with
the Washington Post estimating that Trump has lied
more than 13,000 times in just under 1,000 days as president
-- more than 13 lies every single day. Trump's practice
and pattern of constant lies is, I believe, a systematic strategy
to undermine the idea of there even being such a thing as
objective truth. Trump insists that every fact and piece of
careful reporting that undermines his pathological lying is just
"fake news" from the media who are "the enemy of the
people."No, the press is not the enemy of the people. Rather,
Donald Trump is the enemy of the truth. The president of the
United States has become the enemy of freedom.

Learn more about Jim Wallis' book here. 

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