These stories have been three years in the writing and refining, and it is our hope that they will linger in the reading.

We hope that you are touched by each of the stories, and that they cause you to ask among your family, friends and colleagues, "What really is the truth?"

As many have said, truth is so important because if we cannot invoke truth to settle an argument or to chart a course, then those decisions are made by whomever has the most power. In a society that does not seek, honor and elevate absolute truth, then the strongest bullies are free to make their own rules, and that means that others will suffer. Adhering to the truth, far from putting people in straight jackets, actually gives them the greatest freedom and strength.

The truth will set you free.