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.

  • 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.

  • After Jesus enters Jerusalem at the beginning of the week, he laments the Temple and its future.