text: I always thought the core of Christianity was the Incarnation, not Passion-Resurrection or Pentecost (the holy day for institution-crats). But I have shifted the concept of the Incarnation as I have thought about it over my years. Jesus felt—knew—he was Child of God. But I think he thought we all should think of ourselves in the identical way, as Children of God—which makes us all family. I don't think Jesus thought of himself as uniquely the Son of God. Just one among us billions. He preached so that people would share this view of how we relate to God, how we might think of God as a loving, understanding parent. But this idea was too radical for his followers, who misunderstood everything, just as they always do. So, in a repetition of history, they turned Jesus into another Golden Calf. (Many people just really want that Golden Calf.) But Jesus thought we all carry God's life in us. This is my current understanding.