Inter-spirituality – religions getting along
and learning from each other – is an ideal
like the ethical gold standards:
economic egalitarianism
abandonment of militant nationalism
nuclear disarmament
which are promoted by globalism
and multiculturalism.
Conservative spirituality needs to loosen up
its fixation on ethnocentric myth
and learn how the Spirit expresses itself
in worldcentric reason
and postconventional love.
The Church is both human
since it exists within time
and is subject to forces of history and culture
and it is also divine
because it resolutely presses towards
the final Kingdom/Queendom/Kindom of God.
“Christians must resolutely strive towards
justice in the real, ambiguous world
where grace and sin abound.”
– Reinhold Niebuhr
The idea of God/Christ/religion evolving
rests on the notion that humans evolve –
in fact, technology has become so pervasive
we have evolved into a new species –
techno-sapiens.
At the microlevel of subatomic particles
there is an unceasing flow of energy
too vast for our minds to comprehend.
The Universal Christ is this energy incarnate
in every church/religion/all humans/the universe –
the Universal Christ is the inter-spiritual
gold standard.