Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

Faith

The search for meaning, purpose, and relationship. Our need for love compels us to seek it out, and when we find it, share it.

  • The Transfiguration Again

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    5 min read

    The Transfiguration is a story about following, trusting, and becoming – in light of our confusion and fear.

  • The Righteous Among the Nations

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    6 min read

    Remembering those who stood against evil and saved thousands of lives in the Holocaust is essential to saving lives today. “The Righteous Gentiles”John 19:10-15 I recently took a short course on the German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Bonhoeffer is most known for his challenging view of Christian discipleship and for his participation in the plot to…

  • Revealed to Us

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    6 min read

    Apocalyptic scripture gives us a window into an alternate vision of reality – not in destruction, but in revealing ours as the wrong path. apocalypse and the language of changeMatthew 24:1-14 What do we do with this? Jesus gets apocalyptic in this reading. In ancient Hebrew communities, the apocalyptic was a literary form—it’s like reading…

  • The Presence of Good

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    4 min read

    The gospel is always social. It is the tangible intersection of faith and action: of belief and the active living into a life of wholeness and hope.

  • Doing Right or Being Right

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    4 min read

    It is strange how Christians celebrate martyrs. Not like lions of the faith, but as sheep slaughtered. There’s something behind that.

  • For laborers deserve their food

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    6 min read

    The slogans of our world can help us better understand the mandates of our faith. That we are called to better the circumstances of our neighbors. to understand Jesus we have to trySaint Barnabas | Matthew 10:7-16 We don’t know a lot about Barnabas, of course. His place in tradition is dwarfed by Paul. And…