Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

Drew Downs

  • Congress – the only place it is worse to be called a racist than to be a racist

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    10 min read

    In a recent exchange in Congress, Representatives Tlaib and Meadows reveal the way rules and racism coexist.

  • Facing Foxes

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    10 min read

    Jesus invites us into a new world of mercy based in nonviolent relationships and we’d rather kill it.

  • Our Exceptional Racism

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    2 min read

    Douglas establishes that it isn’t about a singular Florida law that should concern us, but the culture which creates it.

  • Speaking is acting

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    10 min read

    We’ve made a faulty conclusion: that speaking isn’t acting. We couldn’t be more wrong.

  • Hunger

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    8 min read

    In Jesus’s temptation in the wilderness, we get a picture of resistance bigger than willpower and faith. A resistance to becoming powerful at all. Resisting temptation and power with JesusLent 1C | Luke 4:1-13 He ate nothing at all during those days, and when they were over, he was famished. It was a traditional practice…

  • About the Food

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    7 min read

    We mistake the purpose of ashes – our symbol of mortality – for only being about death. They are also an invitation to life.