Author: Drew Downs

  • A Shepherd and a Gate

    A Shepherd and a Gate

    In our reading, Jesus switches metaphors. From one we like to one that is more troubling. But it doesn’t have to be.

  • Welcome—offering it and feeling it

    Welcome—offering it and feeling it

    People can really obsess about being welcomed. Often more than the welcoming they do. But maybe it is quite simple.

  • Between Easter 3 + 4 (Year A)

    Between Easter 3 + 4 (Year A)

    What we need to know between weeks three and four of Easter is that we are revisiting a moment we started in Lent.

  • Rejecting what is real

    Rejecting what is real

    In the resurrection stories of Easter, we encounter, not just the risen Christ, but the doubt of the disciples.

  • Disconnected

    Disconnected

    How our hyper-individualized focus betrays our sense of what is rational and the very stuff that keeps us together.

  • Good News Takes Effort

    Good News Takes Effort

    We all say we want more “good news”. But why don’t we have more of it? Well, it has more to do with selling than value.

  • Encountering Jesus

    Encountering Jesus

    On the road to Emmaus, two disciples encounter a stranger they don’t know is Jesus. Are we sharing in that encounter?

  • Sharing and Caring

    Sharing and Caring

    A reflection on the gospel for this week – on the sharing and the giving and the being with that comes through Jesus.