Bring Truth to Fear: We CAN Work Together

This page serves as a temporary link to the website Bring Truth to Fear, which was originally set up as a response to the 2016 election. The new version of Bring Truth to Fear is being developed as a response to the current pandemic. It will become available in the near future.

Bring Truth to Fear grew out of the realization that the use of fear as a political tactic along with increasing divisiveness and a lack of respect for the truth are undermining our capacity to work together to solve problems and maintain a stable and healthy democracy.

Bring Truth to Fear is a grass roots effort to bring respect for truth and responsibility to our political system and find common ground among diverse interests. Initial areas of focus are to: (1) Develop, and fine-tune, apps, training materials and resources to help citizens and students to recognize and confront Fear-Based Thinking as well as divisive and misleading information in politics and the media; and (2) Create tools, resources and opportunities to find Common Ground between factions and interest groups that have been pulled apart by the political process.

Bringing Truth to Fear challenges us to change our minds - to expand our view of the world and each other. We need to evolve from passive recipients of news and media to active searchers for truth so we can work together to solve problems and realize our potential.

Media Literacy: Helping Students Discover What is True - presentation at Center for Teaching Excellece, Lansing Community College, Nov. 7, 2017

Understand Together:

A process to support and facilitate respectful and meaningful exploration of issues by groups of people with different perspectives

Additional Information

Our democracy may not survive if we remain passive recipients of news and unquestioning followers of those who seek to lead us. It is becoming the duty of each citizen to discern what is true and meaningful in order to understand and address the issues and problems we face and to recognize opportunities that help us work together toward lasting improvement.