Most of today I have taken time to catch up on some reading on the doctrine of incarnation and our response to euthansia.
I had a look through Complex Christ again and and read this in chapter 2 called “Inacarnation”:
The Church now seems to stand in the same place as God stood some 2500 years ago: misrepresented, accused of bigotry, portrayed as narrow minded and in love with power, only interested in buildings, ready to smite the dirty and sinful, over-occupied with sex, and ready to lend support for unjust wars … And so we must do as God did, as Christ comanded and exemplified: we must be born again. Become nothing, removed of strength and power and voice and means and language …
We must re-emerge and grow up again in the place we are meant to serve. Understand it, learn from it, be in it, love it, listen to it, wait 30 years before speaking to it. We must, like God, discard any thoughts that revolution is going to effect change in the Church or our world, and become dedicated to change by evolution.
Somehow those two paragraphs had not hit me first time I read them. As I read them today they seemed to strike with a new resonance and a new challenge to meet people where they are and wait to see what God might do.
The Shiny Headed Prophet 
Can I recomend Athanasius: On the Incarnation – v. old, but excellent little book
An interesting thought about evolution rather than revolution.In our lives (particularly at this time of year with resolutions) we often look to make “transforming” changes and then wonder why they don’t stick. There is a real desire for the grand revolutionary change, the Damascene moment, and yet we are often only able to sustain this for a short period of time. My belief is that this is because the change is not sufficiently rooted in our everyday experience. It seems more likely that by making smaller, achievable, sustainable changes we can really impact our lives and those of others. It may not be as glamorous as the big idea or event but it can be a lot more real!