Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

Culture

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

  • Mad Priest says it the way I wanted to yesterday.  Click over and read it here.

  • I’ll admit that meat and chocolate don’t sound like a match made in heaven. In fact…it sounds pretty repulsive. Sweet and salty is awesome. Sweet and meaty? Not so much. So who tried it first? It doesn’t matter. I tried it. I bought it in a store after a friend recommended it. So thousands at…

  • [I have written several pieces on change and encourage you to find links to them here.] There is something startling about a Christian that doesn’t like change.  We have come to see our faith traditions as monolithic and unchanging.  We look back through our lives and we such static behavior coming from Christianity.  We are used to…

  • [A couple of weeks ago I began writing about change.  I argued that we are called to change and that we actually like change.  You may want to go back and read them both again.  Now I’m going to write about another aspect of change: intransigence.] One of the aspects of our view of change…

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  • One of the most beloved children’s stories tells of an emperor who is tricked by two fashion hucksters to buy the most beautiful clothes—that don’t happen to exist.  The emperor, so taken with his new look, marches in a parade, covered in his new garments.  It is revealed, of course, that in the end, the…