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Copy of tweet thread beginning here: Quote from Gil Bailie’s 'Violence Unveiled: Humanity at the Crossroads' Those living closer to the gospel’s epicenter – beginning with Christianity itself – are more likely to experience its cultural destablilizing effects than those at a greater distance from it. Christianity no more owns the Gospels than do multinational corporations own the earth, a point that the Gospels and the earth will make clear enough in due course. As the cultural and historical convolutions continue, Christians will have abundant reasons for entering into serious dialogue with the religions of the world…in a spirit of humility. In the dialogue itself there is much that Christianity stands to learn from others, but there is one thing that it will have both to learn better itself and to convey more coherently to the world, and that is the staggering historical and anthropological significance of the Cross.