November 13, 2007
Getting to the Root of a Rumor
Last weekend I read an article written by Associated Press Writers Oskar Garcia and Elliot Spagat about sexual abuse across the US. The article contained an interview with Mary Jo McGarth, a California attorney who has worked on teacher sexual abuse cases for three decades. Ms. McGarth said, “Rumors are gold. Rumors truly will light the way to tangible evidences of what’s going on.” Our tendency in the church is to equate rumors with gossip. And, as we all know, nothing will put the breaks on a rumor faster than someone hinting that it is gossip. Rather than squelching a rumor, if we investigated it for the purpose of shedding light on what’s going on in the body the church might be healthier.
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The Flip Side of Rumor
Gail;
-----Does a fence fence things in or fence them out? Does the wall protect the city or obstruct the advance? Without curiosity or aggression, would the fence or the wall be necessary? Without secrecy would there be rumor? We are to speak the truth to one another in love, according to Ephesians, anyway. Although sometimes silence is golden, is it always truthful? Where ever a situation has any effect, in fact, silence is neither golden nor truthful, rather it is a corrosive lie. And where silence lies, rumor will happen instead. For rumor is merely the next best effort to reconstructing the truth when the truth has not been spoken. When the situation effects those who pass rumor, the first bit of evidence provided by rumor itself is that a lie has been projected instead of the truth.
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