Drew Downs, Writing with Hope – Make a New Normal

Identity—being a people of love

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Determining the “real me” is a way of articulating responsibility. But it can also be a way of avoiding having to take any responsibility at all.

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Part of the challenge for preparing for this week’s gospel is that we’ll forget about last week’s. Let’s read them as going together.

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Christian tradition has a troubled past with purity, making it another thing to adhere to rather than a matter of love and grace.

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Episode 85 of the Make Saints podcast

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The thing about claiming tradition is that it is precisely that: a claim. That doesn’t make it real, right, or true. We’re for the status quo.

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How Jesus speaks to his interlocutors in this gospel can be troubling or exciting, but our focus must be what he is teaching his followers.