Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

  • Salty (Epiphany 5A)

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    2 min read

    In the passage right after the Beatitudes, Jesus describes his followers as being like salt. And a light, too.

  • Still poor in spirit

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    3 min read

    Before we can talk about being “the salt of the earth” we must remember the Beatitudes and our poverty in spirit.

  • Salt—remembering what’s important

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    1 min read

    In a world in which there is too much salt in our food, can we truly appreciate what salt even does for us?

  • Going to School

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    1 min read

    The purpose of school is to learn. Not to avoid learning. So why then do we so often choose to avoid learning?

  • Blessed

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    9 min read

    The Beatitudes challenge us to see the love in vulnerability, hope in fear, and in the blessing of justice.

  • The Right Thing

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    2 min read

    We are always obsessed with figuring out what the right thing to do is in any given situation. When a person is killed by police, that right thing becomes even more fraught. When the killing looks like murder and we can see it with our own eyes? Well…you get it. We want to know what…