Why the Name Heresy or Truth?

People sometimes ask how I came up with the title Heresy or Truth?

Ironically, the original domain name I registered years ago was actually Truth or Heresy.

At the time, I was deeply conflicted about some of the things I had begun writing and questioning. Part of me wondered whether I was discovering important truths, while another part feared I might be drifting into dangerous error. I thought to myself, “Is what I am writing the Truth or is it really heresy?“

The fear was very real.

There were moments when the anxiety became so strong that I stopped writing altogether. Eventually, discouraged and uncertain, I even let the original domain name expire–feeling maybe it was just a waste of money.

Later, when I finally decided to begin writing again, the old name was no longer available.

But HeresyOrTruth.com was.

Oddly enough, the reversal struck me immediately as being even more meaningful than the original.

Because by that point in my journey, I had begun to realize something important: throughout history, many ideas once condemned as “heresy” later proved to contain profound truth.

The new title seemed to ask a deeper question:

What if some of the things we are taught to fear, reject, or condemn are not necessarily false at all?

What if the real search is learning how to separate Truth from tradition, fear, assumption, and human interpretation? After reading over much of what I had written I thought, “I wrote that?” And I got a real peace inside about it.

Then the question turned into, “What some people call heresy could really be truth!“

In many ways, that question became the foundation of everything I eventually wrote afterward.