See if you can name the problems. There are many.

Religion = a thing that used to have God's "participation and approval" but doesn't anymore (if it ever did)
Old covenant = a poor/worse way of relating to God and our neighbor

A thing is past, called "religion," and now there is a "new covenant." It's not too hard to put together that the religion of the old covenant is something we want to avoid, and that God was never that fond of. We're doing something new.

That old thing is called Judaism. The new thing is Christianity. I know, i know. This author is talking about legalistic, spiritless, "dead" churches. Well, guess what? That's also how Christianity has portrayed Judaism - a religion - for thousands of years.

If you want to talk about how, within the church God's spirit is breathing into new places - you go Glen Coco! But that's not where the language of covenant enters into a tradition (Christianity) steeped in deadly anti-Judaism.

I'm being a little sensitive here amiright? Surely no harm was meant. I have little doubt this is true. And that's actually how we got to this place. Christians have been careless as well as blatantly anti-Semitic.

If it does seem like I'm a little "over the top" in my criticism of this ONE QUOTE it's because we've been warned against "relationship not religion" language as anti-Jewish for decades. Literally for decades.

Also, we have a conspiracy theory called Q*non, one in the vast history of Jewish conspiracy theories, that is violently anti-Semitic. Rates of anti-Jewish violence escalated 400% under the Trump administration.

We HAVE to be vigilant about this. There can be no "I didn't mean it that way." The church as a historical entity has serious repair to offer, and one way we can do that is to refuse the language of anti-Judaism, even when it seems like it's "sneaking in."