Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

Drew Downs

  • You Can’t Make Me

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    4 min read

    The problem with the phrase, you can’t make me, is not whether it’s true. The problem is that the very idea is fundamentally unjust.

  • Can we cancel Church?

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    1 min read

    Prayer God of Hope, be with me, with us today. Inspire us, encourage us, stir us up that we might know you better. That we might love you better. That we might see you, among these friends, today. Amen. Introduction The format is simple. Some teaching, some talking, some summarizing, some homework. Discussion How does…

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  • When we are all blind

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    7 min read

    This isn’t a story of healing, but of spiritual blindness. A story about skepticism and the rhetorical knots we tie ourselves in. A story about seeing the truthLent 4A | John 9:1-41 The centerpiece of the story has to be the miracle, right? A stranger walks up, gives a man sight, and then keeps on…

  • Saint Joseph

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    3 min read

    Listening to that gospel story about Jesus in the Temple has new resonance for us today. Those of us who grew up with stranger danger already freak out at the thought of leaving our pre-teen son in a strange, public place for hours. Now it’s all the scarier when what surrounds us is a deadly…

  • Intimate Distance

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    7 min read

    The woman at the well presents a unique challenge for us in a moment of anxiety, confusion, and distance. Which also makes it an opportunity.

  • Worship, Lent, & COVID-19

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    1 min read

    I also wrote this letter to the congregation.