The multi-faith group—some 200 congregations strong—believes in the old-time religion you may have learned in Sunday school, or even from the most secular parents. The one centered on caring, sharing, and grace toward others, especially those in need.
Yet these precepts had been shoved from the public stage, considered antiquated if not naive. They’d been replaced by the teachings of a meaner Jesus, one the original might have charged with identity fraud.