Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

  • Speaking is acting

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    10 min read

    We’ve made a faulty conclusion: that speaking isn’t acting. We couldn’t be more wrong.

  • Hunger

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    8 min read

    In Jesus’s temptation in the wilderness, we get a picture of resistance bigger than willpower and faith. A resistance to becoming powerful at all. Resisting temptation and power with JesusLent 1C | Luke 4:1-13 He ate nothing at all during those days, and when they were over, he was famished. It was a traditional practice…

  • About the Food

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    7 min read

    We mistake the purpose of ashes – our symbol of mortality – for only being about death. They are also an invitation to life.

  • A Love Superpower

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    9 min read

    The Transfiguration is the showstopper. But what happens when Jesus comes down the mountain reminds us what Jesus is really doing.

  • Rich

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    2 min read

    There’s a strange view people have about money: that it somehow is permanently theirs.

  • When our need to protect the powerful actually preserves division

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    7 min read

    We treat our divisions like conundrums: unsolvable and eternal. They’re neither. We just need to take their depth more seriously.