A Truth Versus the Truth

How Religious People Embrace or Resist the Modern World

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In A Truth Versus The Truth, chaplain and interfaith leader Stephen Roberts offers a compelling, accessible guide to understanding how religious communities around the world engage with the modern world. Drawing on decades of experience, Roberts introduces a powerful interpretive tool called the Modernity Spectrum, which helps readers explore how faith communities choose to embrace, reject, or adapt to the social, scientific, and cultural changes of our time. Whether Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, or from other religious or spiritual traditions, people of faith often find themselves navigating deep tensions between inherited beliefs and present-day realities. With clarity, warmth, and insight, Roberts explores key areas where religion and modernity frequently collide-science and education, gender roles, sexuality, modesty, dietary laws, and even religiously motivated violence. Through real-world examples, historical context, and comparative insights across multiple traditions, he illustrates how some communities resist modernity to preserve what they believe is sacred truth, while others reinterpret core teachings in order to live faithfully within a changing world. Rather than judging one perspective over another, Roberts invites readers into a larger and more nuanced conversation. He helps us see that what can appear to be contradiction or conflict is often rooted in different ways of defining truth, religious authority, and communal identity. Readers may find that two individuals from entirely different religions have more in common with each other than with someone from their own tradition-depending on where they fall on the Modernity Spectrum. Accessible and clearly written for a broad and diverse readership, A Truth Versus The Truth is a timely and thought-provoking resource. It will resonate with people from every faith tradition, as well as those without religious affiliation-educators, chaplains, interfaith professionals, community leaders, students of religion, and anyone curious about the evolving role of religion in the modern world. Whether you are devout, secular, spiritual-but-not-religious, or still figuring it out, this book offers a fresh and respectful lens to understand the complex ways people live out their deepest convictions today.

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Stephen B. Roberts is a nationally recognized interfaith chaplain, educator, and author whose work bridges the worlds of faith, ethics, education, and social transformation. With over thirty years of experience in professional chaplaincy and spiritual care, he brings a clear, compassionate, and thoughtful voice to today's urgent conversations about religion, identity, and the pressures of modern life.Stephen is the author of A Truth Versus The Truth: How Religious People Embrace or Resist the Modern World, a groundbreaking and accessible exploration of how people of faith navigate the challenges of contemporary society. Using a compelling framework he developed called the Modernity Spectrum, Roberts examines how religious individuals and communities around the world respond to issues like science, gender, sexuality, modesty, education, and violence. The book draws on real-world examples, interfaith dialogue, and decades of practical experience, making it both informative and deeply human.A Board Certified Chaplain, Stephen has served in national leadership roles in disaster spiritual care, including with the American Red Cross following major national emergencies and crises. He is a respected voice in the development of chaplaincy standards and competencies, having co-authored and edited several essential textbooks that help shape the profession. His contributions extend across hospital, hospice, prison, university, and community settings, helping chaplains offer care that is ethical, culturally competent, and spiritually grounded.Stephen is also the founder of ChaplainDL, a pioneering online learning platform that has expanded access to high-quality continuing education for spiritual care providers. Through innovative programming, he has supported chaplains across religious traditions, helping them remain current and effective in today's rapidly changing care environments.He earned his MBA from the Wharton School and brings intellectual rigor, strategic thinking, and institutional insight to his work in religion, ethics, and leadership. Stephen divides his time between New York City and the Hudson Valley, where he writes, teaches, and fosters interfaith cooperation, inclusive spiritual care, and meaningful dialogue across religious/cultural boundaries.A Truth Versus The Truth is his most personal and accessible work to date-an invitation to explore how belief evolves, survives, and finds new meaning in a rapidly changing world.