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    What Is Truth?

    As the season of Lent unfolds, and with it the spiritual journey leading up to Good Friday and Easter Sunday, it’s appropriate to take a few moments to pause and reflect on what matters most. This is especially so against a backdrop of competing claims and counterclaims as to which version of reality popular today offers the strongest and most convincing claims to “truth.”   To incentivize this opportunity for contemplation, I first want to draw attention to Amy Wang, a general assignment reporter forThe Washington Post.[1]In the Post'sdaily political weblogThe Fix, Wang noted that in 2016,Oxford Dictionariesnamed “post-truth” as the “word of the year.”[2]   The idea is that “objective…