Nhat Hanh's sentiment. My book reveals a form of Christianity that shows deep reverence toward other religions. This kind of open Christianity isn't a new idea. If you pray or meditate and encounter God directly in that practice, you are a mystic. If you love God with all your heart and mind and soul, and love your neighbor as yourself, and show it in everyday life with practical costs and consequences, then you are a mystic.
Mysticism is the original old-time religion.
Open Christianity takes the Bible seriously because it does not take it literally. Open Christianity finds more truth in poetry and parable than it does in cold, hard fact. Open Christianity is an ever-evolving, constantly changing language of faith, not a fixed body of precepts and rituals. When he was accused of re-interpreting and humanizing the sabbath laws of Israel, Jesus answered that the sabbath was made for humanity, not humanity for the sabbath. As human beings change, so must the religions that serve us.