"If we don't have a lot of truth-speakers in our country, or in our Church, I think it can in part be explained by the lack of masculine energy-this lack of determination to go with what you have got to go with, pay the price for it and let the cards fall where they may. Many more women than men have this energy, especially in the Church."(R. Rohr "Radical Grace" p.264)
We certainly have a lot of self-proclaimed truth speakers in our country. Talk radio, blogs, and cable news networks couldn't exist without these people. But are they truth tellers? That's always the hard part. Remember Pilate asking Jesus what is truth?
The answer should be the truth is what actually happens. We've changed that to whatever it is that I already believed.
Being able to not care what anyone thinks or what the reaction will be is another potential litmus test. However that also allows for people with just another opinion to have their day in the sun.
Telling others what they may not want to hear is never easy. Saying something that might bring about radical change is also risky. And yet if we no one does it, we stay stuck. No new life ever emerges.
It is rarely pleasant when we are confronted by a truth speaker. The task becomes to know when you've seen a real one, as compared to a wannabe.
Blessings,
Ed
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