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Renegades of Funk (Monday Mixtape)
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4 min read
Now renegades are the people with their own philosophies They change the course of history Everyday people like you and me We’re the renegades we’re the people With our own philosophies We change the course of history Everyday people like you and me As I said in my homily yesterday, the stuff that got Jesus…
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Hypocrites
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1 min read
My reflection on today’s gospel: Matthew 23:1-12.
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The Future of Seminary: Fix Dioceses
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5 min read
[Over on Patheos, they are doing a great series on the future of Seminary education. I haven’t read it all, and nobody asked me for advice, but I thought I’d throw in at least a couple of cents. Kurt Willems nails the economic burden and Tony Jones makes a compelling case for the very tools of…
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Find me on tumblr
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Just a quick notice that I’ve repurposed my tumblr page to be a tumbleblog about being a Stay-at-Home-Dad (SAHD). It’s called Stay-at-Home-Drew, and features the ongoing misadventures of the Downs clan. I invite you to check it out here. Also, a link has been placed in the menu bar (and in the blogroll at the…
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Fixing the problem of college costs
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4 min read
Student loan debt recently broke $100 billion for the first time in history. It isn’t like we couldn’t see this coming. Virtually no wage increase for the bottom 95% over the last thirty years. Annual tuition increases above inflation rate. State payment cuts to universities. Decreased scholarship opportunities. The end result is college costs have…
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In the week between when the world discovered Sgt. Shamar Thomas, some dudes went crazy. The viral video of an Iraqi veteran chastising the New York police department for arming up against their own civilians as if it were a war zone was a wake-up call to the sleeping public. These public protesters aren’t impudent…
Make a New Normal
