All of these religious systems are human creations through which many people have walked into the mystery and wonder of God. There is no single pathway into the Holy.

Those who think there is must face the fact that they have created an idol and installed it in the place reserved for God alone. Only those who worship an idol can believe that they possess, inside their faith tradition alone, the full meaning of God, a concept that is breathtaking in both its arrogance and its ignorance.

The purpose of Christianity, as I understand it and practice it, is to enhance human life. It is not to make people more religious or to force them to conform to prescribed religious explanations. It is my sense that the same is true for both Judaism and Islam. So I find it inconceivable that a spiritual practice that has worked for countless others throughout the world might not also be employed with positive results by people of other faith traditions.

The God so many people seem to worship is simply too small and too provincial to be
God for our time and for our world.