Drew Downs
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Transfigured — We are more than what we look like
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2 min read
The appearance and substance of Jesus is too often treated as separate, and relating to matter rather than our experience of him.
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Why Jesus tells us to love our enemies
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10 min read
In commanding his disciples to love everybody, Jesus is pushing us to reject the thinking we think is natural, obvious, required of us.
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It’s a thousand things
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1 min read
Episode 91 of the Make Saints podcast
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The crazy idea that loving people actually works
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8 min read
People often concoct incredible scenarios to avoid dealing with the stuff Jesus is trying to say about loving the people around us.
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What good is love?—for Epiphany 7C
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2 min read
In the command to love, we are invited into a relationship that is neither weak nor stuck, but full of fidelity and life-affirming grace.
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Conviction and turning the other cheek
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2 min read
There is a certain depiction in US culture that the command to love is weak, but it is actually the primary building block of protest.