Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

  • a homily for Proper 22C Text: Luke 17:5-10 Just a little bit more, pllleeeeeaaase! “Increase our faith!” they call to Jesus. Increase it. Build it. We are faithful, but not enough. Is what they no doubt think. We trust you, we’re here with you, and we want to believe, but…it’s just so hard to do…

  • For the last two and a half chapters in the gospel we call Luke, Jesus has been building up this teaching on faithfulness and action. It began with the crowd when he told them three parables about things that were lost and found. Each was lost, redeemed, and forgiven. Powerful stories that we often take…

  • a homily for Proper 21C Text: Luke 16:19-31     Picturing the People Listen again to the opening sentences of this parable. Hear it. Close your eyes and take it in. There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate lay…

  • Was it your Mom, a school teacher, a family friend that first told you that needs are more important than wants? For me, I’m sure it was my Mom. You don’t need that Star Wars action figure. You want it. It didn’t matter that I felt as if I would die without it, she wasn’t…

  • [Photo/The Daily Progress/Andrew Shurtleff] The question for Anglicans should not be “How big is your tent?” It should be “How does the way we gather under it announce the Kingdom of God is at hand?” What is Anglicanism? | St. Paul’s Episcopal Church.

  • a homily for Proper 20C Text: Luke 16:1-13 A strange little story Jesus is a master storyteller. He’s pulled off a sequence of three parables: a kind of meditation on a common theme: that culminate with the most beloved parable of them all, what we call the Parable of the Prodigal Son. It is a…