Drew Downs, Writing with Hope – Make a New Normal

Love all the way down

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6 min read

There’s a thing we miss about the great commandment: to love God and our neighbors as ourselves. And that is that we are made of love.

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7 min read

Most of us understand that conspiracy theories are fake. But in rejecting them, we miss the very means of disrupting them.

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3 min read

We love the idea. And the phrase is so common. Offer a different perspective. Doesn’t matter if its useful. Make sure we talk anyway.

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6 min read

Our gospel this week returns to ideas of love and authority. Two concepts that seem, at first, to have nothing to do with each other. And yet…

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When Jesus tells the lawyer that loving God and our neighbor as ourselves is the greatest commandment, are we truly with him?

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1 min read

We find it easy to excuse retaliation or xenophobia as natural or necessary—an exception. But the rule is love. It is our command.