What do we mean by a true religion? To start with, one whose teachings are true. But there is more to it than that. For the central religious concern is undoubtedly salvation, which consists in a fundamental shift from a bad and humanly destructive situation of alienation from God to a new, healing and growing relationship of reconciliation and acceptance, increasingly expressed in a life lived in response to God. And so a true religion is an authentic channel or context of this salvific transformation. More about both of these elements presently.