I know it sounds crazy but hear me out.

I’m not asking you to change what you believe. Just take this short, imaginary ride with me. Think of it as my Spiritual Wish-Fulfillment exercise.

Start with this proposition:

“Wouldn’t it be nice if God’s imagination and capacity for compassion were even greater than your religion teaches?”

What might that look like?

Let’s imagine that God broadcasts not on AM or FM but on GM: God Modulation. In our scenario, God broadcasts at all available frequencies on this band.

Let’s further imagine that every person has a tuner in their hearts—you know, like those old analog radios where you turn a dial and a little red needle moves across the broadcast frequencies.

Suppose most of us can only hear God on one frequency. Think of it as our unique GM radio station.

For you it’s 90.1, for your neighbor it’s 106.7, for your brother-in-law, Phil, it’s 97.9.

Even atheists hear God under the right conditions—when they’re holding a newborn baby, looking into a clear night sky, listening to a symphony, reading poetry, or maybe contemplating quantum physics. GM radio is tuned in for atheists when they arrive at awe—it’s not something they associate with spirituality in any way, and they never will.

Christians, then, are hearing God on their specific frequency—and no other. Same with Hindus and Muslims, etcetera.

But what if it’s the same God they’re all hearing from on those different frequencies? What if the beliefs, rituals, moral codes, prayers and dogma look different, but the Spirit from which they’re being derived is the same?

NASA says that there are nearly 300 moons orbiting planets in the Milky Way galaxy. None of them have a light of their own. All are illuminated by the same Sun.

What if we think of the moons as different religions and the sun as the only true God lighting each distinct spiritual belief in its own location, in the context of its unique culture?

What if God hears every prayer, and every spiritual path ultimately leads to heaven?

Take it further.

What if, at the end of the show, there was redemption for all, union with God, eternal bliss—even for the worst humans ever born?

(If you must imagine hell, imagine a redemptive hell instead of a punitive one. A place where we might feel every hurt we’ve ever caused—however long or short a time it takes—until we are purified. Now, at least, the punishment fits the crime. And once the scales are balanced, we join the heavenly choir.)

Does such an idea make you feel joy? Or would you be disappointed that your religion wasn’t the only right one? Do you want your God to only “save” the few and allow the many to be damned?

I know that, for me, the idea of universal salvation is the most beautiful and sane religious vision I can imagine.

Maybe it’s nothing more than a naive dream.

Or maybe the highest truths are SO much better than our religions have managed to portray.

Maybe the ever-loving, always redeeming, perfect love of God is the Divine Light that illumines every heart, no matter how distant or dark.

Many moons. One sun lighting them all.

Brothers and sisters, tune in to your GM station and let God’s light shine through your life.

May it be so.

Amen.