Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

Culture

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

  • How to avoid solving a problem

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    5 min read

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

  • James Lloyd Breck

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    4 min read

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

  • You Can’t Make Me

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    4 min read

    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.

  • Jesus Ascended

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    4 min read

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

  • Honor

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    5 min read

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

  • Between — Back to John the Baptist

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    8 min read

    All this jumping around in the lectionary is making me dizzy. Now we’re back to John the Baptist. But a question remains unanswered.