down. Their faith was shaken to the core, and they are left with pain and doubt. Again, not that there’s anything wrong with stepping out from behind the curtain of ideas to let your audience look into your eyes, hear your story, and see you as a real person. But an appealing narrative does not negate the role of truth as being the ultimate arbiter between competing lines of thought. Whether the engaging speaker is an agnostic New Testament professor or a tattooed guest pastor speaking every night