Drew Downs

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  • The siren song of weeds

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    I wrote a post the other day in which I typed “reign” when I should have typed “rein”. It was a simple slip, and one I didn’t notice. It was pointed out on Facebook and for the next day, the only comments on the post were about the spelling. The post was actually a bold post of…

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  • The Gate

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  • Vacation

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  • Why priests must learn to code

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    7 min read

    I’m generally not one to encourage business models in church: we’re generally saturated with them already. Or, more to the point, we apply them indiscriminately, with the idea that churches in general need to function more efficiently and take on a more corporate strategy. My own denomination, The Episcopal Church, did this with gusto in…

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  • The Church’s leadership problem and how we can fix it

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    6 min read

    I love you, Church, but we’ve got a problem. Sometimes it seems like you are addicted to tyrants and despots. Like those Hebrews asking for a king. Or else you are addicted to ineffectual and passive leadership. The kind easily manipulated by the whims of the powerful or chided in parking lots. You make it…

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  • The Next Big Thing for Christianity

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    7 min read

    Prophets The prophets of the Old Testament were gifted at knowing what was about to happen. But not so gifted at predicting the future. The difference between the two is simple to parse. Given the environment and knowledge of the world, culture, and the divine dream, they did an astounding job of knowing what would…

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