Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

  • Obama’s Stand Means More Than You Think

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    5 min read

    You’ve no doubt read enough about what President Barack Obama’s public statement about gay marriage means. That is so last week. But as I’ve been catching up on my podcasts, I’ve discovered an important element missing from the coverage. What it means to the metanarrative of American politics. The Negative Much of the obvious response…

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  • For Good, He Leaves

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    a Homily for Easter 7B Text: John 17:6-19 Jesus leaves twice. We forget that. We celebrate Jesus dying and rising again. But Jesus doesn’t rise like a ghost on the way up to the clouds. Jesus comes to his disciples and clears the air. Think of it this way. In preparing for his death, Jesus…

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  • The Freeloafer Economy

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    2 min read

    In an article I read this morning (but can no longer track down), one of the people interviewed spoke of “eliminating spending”. Not cutting spending or reducing spending, but eliminating spending. As in all. It occurred to me that this is the most obtuse, and natural, of directions for the debate to go, because it is based on…

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  • Is He Leaving?

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    A video reflection on this Sunday’s gospel: John 17:6-19.

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  • Not Head or Heart But Gut

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    3 min read

    Sometimes the way to where you need to go isn’t a straight line. And it isn’t the way your brain tells you to go. It isn’t where others direct you, either. But to get there, you must pass through the other options. One of my favorite bloggers, Deborah Bryan wrote yesterday about her “Further adventures…

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  • Love and Sacrifice

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    a Homily for Easter 6B Text: John 15:9-17 Last week’s Gospel pericope ended with verses 7 and 8 which read: If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask for whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit and…

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