This is from a “Welcome” part of our service from Sunday December 4, 2016 and it captures what a lot of us are struggling with lately.
We’ll explore “Post-Truth” from a religious perspective in a service on Sunday December 18, 2016.

Welcome message 12/4/16
I’m Russ Menk the minister serving this liberal progressive congregation.
What is a liberal progressive religion?
Well, for Unitarian Universalist this means that we don’t believe that revelation is sealed. We call ours a “living tradition,” drawing from multiple sources, including our own direct experience. Truth is revealed to us again and again and we learn, and we understand that what was believed to be true 100 years ago or 50 years ago or 10 years ago may not be true now or tomorrow or 10 years from now.
Of our 7 Principles, our 4th says we believe in “A free and responsible search for truth and meaning.”

While truth may be situational and transient, many of us are struggling with the post-truth political era we have entered.  Post-Truth (per Wikipedia) is a “political culture in which debate is framed largely by appeals to emotion disconnected from the details of policy, and by the repeated assertion of talking points to which factual rebuttals are ignored. Post-truth differs from traditional contesting and falsifying of truth by rendering truth of “secondary” importance.”
Think of George Orwell’s novel “1984” and the Ministry of Truth.

What is our liberal progressive path to our continued discoveries of truth
when reality itself is under siege?
What comes after post-truth?

If you are frightened about campaign promises and a post-truth political era,
You are welcome here.
If you need a safe community where honesty and a search for truth is primary,
You are welcome here.
If you are looking for a safe harbor where compassion, love, comfort, and acceptance are paramount
You are welcome here.