Drew Downs, Writing with Hope – Make a New Normal

God had him trade water for sand

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A Poem of Temptation

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The political impact of these “don’t say gay bills” is furthering incoherent and illogical laws for culture war benefit.

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Wrestling with the Temptation of Jesus in the Wilderness, we can’t escape the story is about power and control.

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The story of Jesus’s temptation in the wilderness is an invitation to examine our own relationship with power.

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The gospel for Ash Wednesday invites us to rethink praying in public. And what it is we’re really going on about.

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There’s a way we talk about temptation. We construct it as an all-consuming force we are powerless against. It isn’t.