Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

  • No Easy Faith

    Jesus offers Nicodemus a new way of seeing the world and a new life. Our attempts to make new life easy strip it of its true substance.

  • Algorithms claim to help us engage with what we love but often create a self-reinforcing feedback loop instead.

  • Episode 70 of the Make Saints podcast

  • This one verse, John 3:16, is treated like an evangelism tool. The whole experience is of a verse taken completely out of context.

  • What it means to love, to offer ourselves, to give and become different, is much bigger than any slogan we can come up with.

  • The idea of putting a verse’s notation out into the world, hoping someone will open a Bible and be converted to Christ is just weird.