Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

Drew Downs

  • The chief priests and scribes conspire to kill Jesus. Not because they don’t like him. But precisely because they feel justified in wanting to kill him.

  • When the authorities confront Jesus in the Temple, they find a popular teacher warning them not to choose the way of death.

  • After Jesus enters Jerusalem at the beginning of the week, he laments the Temple and its future.

  • In Luke 19, we get a disturbing image that casts Jesus in a whole new light.

  • One Book One Diocese Lenten Study The Episcopal Diocese of Indianapolis is reading the same book together for Lent. Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God by Kelly Brown Douglas. We’re gathering in local communities to discuss the book or reading independently. As part of my own discipline of reading the book and preparing for discussion,…

  • The challenge of faith is that we don’t get to say who are “real Christians”.