Tag: deception

Sinception: The Ineffable Horror of Becoming Lost in Your Lies

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutesInception was nifty movie in a way. The protagonists infiltrated people’s dreams and manipulated them, effectively making them a lie within a lie…within a lie. Each level of “lie” you went deeper, the greater the chance that you’d never find your way back to reality. The same is true of sin. When we try to hide or keep a sin, we tend to pile on additional lies, building a foundation…

A Failure to Communicate: The Story of My Life?

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 4 minutes“Simplifying important but complex messages can be a necessary and valuable approach for increasing the reach of those messages. But when simplification renders the message inaccurate, the mission is harmed.” —Dr. Heather E. Heying While I was on a quick, 24-mile hike with an acquaintance, she commented that I would talk about things which “made no sense.” While they made plenty of sense to me, and I was conveying correct…