Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

June 2012

  • Ideologies Do Not Win

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    3 min read

    I hate to lose. I know you hate to lose. Losing sucks. When our surrogates lose, we feel like we lose. When our surrogates win, we feel like we’ve won. And we make a dangerous decision about these wins and losses: that it is ideologies that win and lose on election day. It couldn’t be…

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  • In Two Worlds

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    5 min read

    a Homily for the First Sunday After Pentecost, year B Text: John 3:1-17  click here for the audio seeing with different eyes The most important verse in this morning’s pericope is not John 3:16, but 3:8. Here’s how we get there. As you may have noted, we covered this part of Scripture back in Lent.…

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  • The Problem With Only Talking With Men About Women’s Issues

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    2 min read

    We don’t just need women in the room and at the table. We need women actually talking about women’s issues. And it needs to happen in front of a camera. Because it isn’t. Remember back in February, when we saw this picture? The one full of a bunch of white men testifying before Congress (full…

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