Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

  • Just a quick thought for a Monday morning… Why is it that the millions that protested the Iraq Conflict peacefully for years were virtually ignored by the press and totally ignored by Washington while today’s ‘protesters’, hundreds of angry and abusive anti-tax protesters, are media darlings and have Congress cow-towing to them?

  • My St. Patrick’s Day sermon at our Lenten ecumenical community worship service.

  • simplicity

    Through Lent, St. Paul’s is holding a Lenten Program about Simplicity.  The concept, as I see it, being this: We have complicated lives and live in a complex world, but it need not be so. This complexity separates us from one another and from God. To achieve balance in our lives, we must remove what…

  • into the wild

    Though I’ve read the book by Jon Krakauer, this isn’t a book review, or even a direct allusion. But maybe it is. It seems as if we are bound to our domesticated life by shear will and determination. It is out in the wild that we actually yearn to live. Maybe its time we moved…

  • Church signs are my version of the car accident: I know I shouldn’t look at them, but I can’t pull my eyes away from them.

  • new fortunes

    There is no greater window into your own soul like a fortune cookie. But what happens when you see nothing?