Drew Downs
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Between Christmas and Epiphany (Year C)
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3 min read
As the lectionary brings us to the season after the epiphany, we find ourselves jumping from story to story—but there’s a theme.
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My 3 Words for 2025
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3 min read
These are the three words I use to guide the year. It’s a practice I’ve been up to since 2016 and find it helps me focus.
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Stay with this
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6 min read
The prologue of John offers us a totally different, radical, empowering vision of what God is doing to transform the world.
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In the stories of the birth of Jesus, we don’t just find facts about him worth knowing, but a way of being in the world today.
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Singing a song of revolution
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9 min read
In Mary’s visit with her cousin Elizabeth, we see the thing we are anticipating in the incarnation: a love revolution for all people.
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Even more talk of changing the world
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4 min read
Wrestling a sermon for Sunday about the visit with Elizabeth and Magnificat point to a political truth about Mary’s place in the story.