I.
"I am the way, the truth, and the life.
No one comes to the Father, but through me." (John 14:6)
These words have bludgeoned worthy
souls with violence to exclude.
Jesus postures only Love and mercy;
God's eternal Wisdom ever flows to include.
The dying grandpa's Buddhist altar
is entrusted to his Christian heir.
"Ancestor worship's not in the Psalter!"
Invoke Wisdom, not spiritual warfare.
"The true light that illumines all
has come into the world!" (John 1:9)
Cosmic Christ redeems and rests
with Wisdom in the Father's breast.
Selah.
II.
When absolute egotism
violates interfaith discourse,
sexism, classism, and racism
are brutal powers errantly in force!
Christians seek converts around the globe.
The Hindus view this with disdain.
Apostle Paul was no xenophobe.
Wisdom is the sacred of the profane.
"Jesus, pure servility,
suffered for all humanity!" (Phil. 2:6-7)
Cosmic Christ redeems and rests
with Wisdom in the Father's breast.
Selah.
III.
Swear off confessional fascism!
God's truth speaks cross-culturally.
Embrace confessional universalism!
After all, Who reconciles the stars?
As Christians we profess through Him
to know the God of all genealogy,
not our neighbor's faith to bedim.
Enshrined theology is idolatry.
"The Logos truly lived among us.
We saw Wisdom's graceful glory as
the one and only Father's Son." (John 1:14)
Cosmic Christ redeems and rests
with Wisdom in the Father's breast.
Selah.
"God don't pick favorites; every reverent and righteous nation belongs." (Acts 10:34)
Wayne is a current MDiv student at Earlham School of Religion. He is a member of Brooklyn Monthly Meeting, New York Yearly Meeting.
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