Drew Downs
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Up and Down
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3 min read
What we understand as up and down is relative to our location. Locations that, themselves, are relative to each other—it is all relative.
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Debates on what clothes make a professional seem reasonable and valuable. But they hide our confusion over our true values.
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Wrestling with the wicked
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8 min read
The parable of the wicked tenants challenges us to see in it more than the Passion, but of the actions we treat as inevitable.
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Seeing the wicked or the good? — for Proper 22A
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2 min read
With a parable of wickedness, our minds turn to their own kind of wickedness, not redemption, or goodness. But they could.
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Rejected—and the morality of rejecting in return
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1 min read
Rejection is a prime example of something we hate experience and seem to love doing to others. Even when we don’t want to.
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Between Proper 21 + 22 (Year A)
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2 min read
The confrontations in the Temple continue. And understanding how they got there, and how that makes us feel, is essential.