Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

Culture

What’s going on, who we are, and what the big deal is.

  • Seeing the Gadsden flag flown outside an occupied Capitol building reveals the lie behind its words: “Don’t tread on me”.  They trod. Which transforms the message. Long used as a Libertarian call to arms, this flag has meant to express a sense of rugged, but equal independence. But under its surface, there has always been…

  • Protests are an opportunity to hear from the powerless. They aren’t a problem that needs to be fixed.

  • It is easy to dwell on accomplishments – especially when they are truly great – and miss the truth behind them: it isn’t about us.

  • The problem with the phrase, you can’t make me, is not whether it’s true. The problem is that the very idea is fundamentally unjust.

  • In Jesus Ascended, Scott Douglas explores Jesus’s Ascension – a theological concept Christians routinely profess and almost never think about.

  • Honor

    In giving Rush Limbaugh the Medal of Freedom, President Trump seeks to redefine honor and freedom from the American people.