Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

  • Inside the Cacophony

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    6 min read

    a Homily for the Last Sunday after Epiphany, B Text:Mark 9:2-9 I walked into my poetry class completely unprepared for what was about to happen. This was years ago, back when I dreamed of becoming a writer, a playwright or poet, actually. Or at the very least the teacher of writers. It was our second…

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  • Jon Stewart: The Vagina Ideologues

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    1 min read

    Jon Stewart tackles not only the question of contraception, but the hypocrisy of a bunch of men making decisions about women’s bodies. You have got to see it!

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  • Throw Your Process Off a Bridge

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    2 min read

    It has become clear that we are in an age in which process and system are colliding. Our institutions aren’t failing because they are institutions (and our government isn’t failing simply because it is government).  They fail because the process is obstructing the system. What I mean by process and system are simply the difference…

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  • Love Poem

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    1 min read

    What is love but speculation? We carefully construct our appearance and speak reasonably and passionately; a courting ritual so deceitful and ambitious in its attempt to win loyalty and devotion. And yet, it is love that enters in behind lust and desire. It eats away selfish demands, revealing joy and childish giddy inhabiting even stern…

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  • Roman Catholic Bishops Out of Control

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    3 min read

    And especially not on contraception. Ever since Pope Paul VI reaffirmed the Church’s senseless ban on birth control in 1968, few doctrines have been as vilified, ridiculed and outright ignored by Catholics – evidenced by a recent study showing that 98% of American Catholic women have used some form of contraception. It’s hard to believe,…

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  • No Level Playing Field For Small and Big

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    4 min read

    I used to have a reoccurring conversation with a friend in college about equality.  He is a libertarian and argues for minimal interference and rules.  I am not.  He would talk about the level playing field between he and minorities, including women.  He argued that they had the same chances he had.  I pointed out that he…

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