Author: Drew Downs

  • Sharing—offering life to everyone

    Sharing—offering life to everyone

    The root of evangelism isn’t that we have something we’re pitching to someone else. It is sharing in life.

  • Between Easter 2 + 3 (Year A)

    Between Easter 2 + 3 (Year A)

    With the move to the third week of Easter, we switch to Luke’s gospel. To find ourselves focused in a different direction.

  • Believing Anyway

    Believing Anyway

    This gospel, while centering around Thomas, is mistaken for a treatise on unbelief rather than what belief looks like.

  • Less Consuming

    Less Consuming

    We’re aware of the problems with social media. And our always-on culture. But we keep acting like we have no choice.

  • Lack of Faith (Easter 2)

    Lack of Faith (Easter 2)

    The resurrection story with Thomas challenges our expectations of belief and doubt. And even the point of Easter.

  • Between Easter 1 and 2

    Between Easter 1 and 2

    The lectionary goes straight from Easter 1 to 2. But the story of Jesus’s appearance in the locked room is missing something.

  • “Christ is risen” or “doubting Thomas”?

    “Christ is risen” or “doubting Thomas”?

    One of the richest resurrection stories is often told as a warning against doubt. Rather than a declaration of faith.

  • Seeing or feeling is believing?

    Seeing or feeling is believing?

    Dealing with the Thomas resurrection story means wading past our assumptions about doubt. And about belief.