Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

  • Choosing to Live

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    9 min read

    When Jesus is stymied in his hometown, we may be tempted to hear their stubbornness as rational, rather than what it is: delusional.

  • The perfect length of beard

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    3 min read

    The pursuit of the perfect beard is a false expectation. How we deal with self-sabotage and perfectionism, however, is the real work.

  • Fireworks are never personal

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    7 min read

    Fireworks are the definition of public displays. Explosions of sound and light, fire and power. A violent eruption to the mundane.

  • What’s our work here?

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    4 min read

    In their desire to keep things as they are, the townspeople struggle with the opportunity Jesus offers them: to make a new normal.

  • Home again?—for Proper 9B

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    3 min read

    Going home can be a kind of strained time travel. The past and present collide and people think we must always be the same. Always.

  • Home—everything always changes

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    2 min read

    We need to not only accept change, but the feeling that sometimes rejects it—there is something at war in us that time always exacerbates.