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.

  • or how Catholics use natural law to avoid doing theology. Pope on Gender: “Stop oppressing my oppressive ideology!” I get that it must be confusing. You grew up looking at the world and thinking there are only two options. And really, they seem like the only real ones anyway. Man or Woman. Coke or Pepsi.…

  • Episcopalians don’t only focus on what we believe or why.

  • One Table

    Receiving communion is an act of learning about God.

  • He is Risen!

    The sign seemed pretty mundane. But they have no idea how their advertising defangs the power Easter can have for Christian communities. There’s a certain Methodist church I pass daily. They have an electronic sign which can display upcoming events and fancy graphics. It’s the kind of thing which inspires in me both jealousy and…

  • Watching Notre Dame, the echoes of Holy Week reverberated. The warning of the temple’s destruction, of course. But also the call to listen.

  • The chief priests and scribes conspire to kill Jesus. Not because they don’t like him. But precisely because they feel justified in wanting to kill him.