Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

September 18, 2012

  • Sometimes what we all need is some good ol’ truth-telling. The prophetic sort. The kind that we gloss over read each week from Jesus. J. Barrett Lee timed this one perfectly: A Growing Church is a Dying Church « The Theological Wanderings of a Street Pastor. In light of Sunday’s gospel, our call to sacrifice, here…

  • In Sunday’s gospel story, we had the famous pair of questions Jesus asks: Who do people say that I am? Who do you say that I am? As I was writing about this idea for our parish newsletter, I realized something important. These two questions have two more hidden questions, or more precisely, two hidden…