For anybody looking to make a change in the New Year...

The Complex Christ: Find the Imperfection: Exist there:

"...The root question: how do things change? What are the actual processes that people, institutions, societies go through that effects change within them? And how can we effect change? My argument was that there it is not a simple choice between step-change - where things just crunch into a new realization - and evolving change - where everything goes gently along.

... the advice of Certeau and Foucault, who counseled that we need to seek out the fissures, the cracks in culture and work there.

This is the work of Trickster, the dirt-monger. Trickster finds the imperfections, and works a newness, a change from within it. Not working against the imperfection, but through it.

For those existing within 'solid' practices, places, churches: perhaps find that crack, that fissure, and rather than attack it to rupture the solid, use it as a site for localized boiling, for initializing a small pocket of phase change. Not against it, but through it. "