“The great glory and strength of pluralism is that it compels the holder of any belief to measure its truthfulness against alternative interpretations. The great hazard of pluralism is the faulty deduction, in the name of tolerance, that all beliefs can be equally true…Any society, however sincere, that believes in the equality of all ideas will pave the way for the loss of good ones…

…in God’s economy there is an egalitarianism in people, but an elitism in ideas. By that [we] mean the equality of all humanity but the inequality of ideas. While human beings are equal, ideas are not.

By contrast, in the world’s way of doing things we have created an elitism among people and an egalitarianism of ideas: We have made some people superior to others and rendered all ideas equal.

The end result has been the explotation of people and the death of truth.”

“Our theology is inclusive,” says the Rev. Steven Swope, acting minister of the Christian congregation that owns the church. “Jesus is our way,” he said, “but other people have other ways. This is our way of living that out.”