Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

  • Formatting!

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    I’ve been playing around with formatting.  I’d love some feedback! Notice changes to color, additions to the sidebar, and a few other tweaks.  Please let me know what you think!

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  • Don’t fear deconstruction

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    As part of an ongoing project, I’m collecting some instructive ideas and understandings on this site into a new category called “Emergence“.  You can click on it in the headings above or click through the link.  I plan on describing what emergence is and what the emerging church means for liturgical and social justice Christians…

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  • About a boy

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    My daughter’s new buddy. His name is Boy. He looks like the one her Nana got her the other day. His name is also Boy. Well, they are Smurfs after all.

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  • Leaving Nana at the airport

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    My Mom has been visiting us for the last two weeks. It was a Godsend. Rose and I needed a break and some help and the opportunity to relax. My Mom was great at this: Sophia stuck by her side the whole visit and we even had a few opportunities to go out! We went…

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  • Republican civil war?

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    After the hoopla over the debt ceiling is now officially over and there couldn’t be any adverse effects on the poor, but thank goodness the armageddon that we imposed on ourselves and then averted–good work, Superman!–is no longer a threat, we can go onto other stuff: like petty politics!  If you just can’t get enough,…

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  • When GOD doesn’t provide

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    If you say the phrase “God will provide” in the Downs house, you’ll likely get your mouth taped shut.  Not by me, but by my wife: she’s the pragmatist.  “God doesn’t pay the electric bill!” she’ll retort. Since I was let go, we’ve been facing this very issue; trusting in GOD while trying to understand…

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