Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

  • Mad Priest says it the way I wanted to yesterday.  Click over and read it here.

  • Over the last week or so, some really good Christians have written about the death penalty from a Christian perspective.  It has been in the public consciousness for the last few weeks.  I gave my own response recently. But in the responses, a curious thing happened.  There was what has to be this moment of…

  • Another Facebook update hit us yesterday and you would have thought that it took away everyone’s birthdays. Calamity! They changed the feed so that top stories are at the top. Oh. My. Gosh! Better quit; we can’t have Facebook be more useful or intuitive! Yes, I like change and I’m hoping by this time that…

  • Over at The Lead on Episcopal Cafe…

  • I’ll admit that meat and chocolate don’t sound like a match made in heaven. In fact…it sounds pretty repulsive. Sweet and salty is awesome. Sweet and meaty? Not so much. So who tried it first? It doesn’t matter. I tried it. I bought it in a store after a friend recommended it. So thousands at…

  • [I have written several pieces on change and encourage you to find links to them here.] There is something startling about a Christian that doesn’t like change.  We have come to see our faith traditions as monolithic and unchanging.  We look back through our lives and we such static behavior coming from Christianity.  We are used to…