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 church isn’t a building. So focusing on returning to our buildings is fundamentally out of step with the church’s vocation.

  • We often treat the remembering of history as inoculation or as a subjective experience. But it is the very stuff of reconciliation.

  • War or Peace?

    These two are a wonderful contradiction, pushing our expectations for how we respond to matters of war and violence and matters of active peacemaking.

  • Chosen Family

    The story of Molly Brant (Konwatsijayenni) forces American Christians to face our devotion to nation and to our human family.

  • When Jesus confronts the Temple authorities, many in the west struggle to understand that the image isn’t hypocritical: it’s about justice.

  • This period of time may be isolating enough. We didn’t need a pandemic to tell us that. But we are presently afforded the opportunity to turn ourselves and our families in mind of something deeper. With that in mind, I wrote a short daily devotion for home use that guides us daily through Holy Week.…