Philosopher and author of Testimonies to the Truth: Why You Can Trust the Gospels, Lydia McGrew, explores some of the characteristics of testimony within the Gospel narratives

No doubt all of us, at times, have told anecdotes about things that have really happened to us. And, if we’re lucky, we’ve had the chance to listen to such true anecdotes, not only from our contemporaries, but also from those of a previous generation – parents and grandparents – and thus to learn about things that might otherwise be lost once the rememberers have passed away.

Without thinking about it consciously, we’ve had a chance to get to know the texture of testimony. What does it sound like when someone tells what he remembers truthfully, without embellishing or changing the facts but also, necessarily, telling what struck him at the time… (Register to read the rest of the article)