Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

All Saints

  • Episode 43 of the Make Saints podcast

  • Jesus doesn’t simply raise Lazarus from the dead. He commands those who love him to also unbind him and let him go.

  • Unbind Them

    All Saints and All Souls Observed Collect Almighty God, you have knit together your elect in one communion and fellowship in the mystical body of your Son Christ our Lord: Give us grace so to follow your blessed saints in all virtuous and godly living, that we may come to those ineffable joys that you…

  • All (Saints)

    Episode 3 October 29, 2021

  • Hallow

    What do we honor? Hallow is not a word we use often, even in church, though most of us say it daily. “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.” Outside of the Lord’s Prayer, we’re not likely to use it. The word hallow means to honor as holy. So, we honor God’s name as…

  • I live in a community that really loves Halloween. Halloween, of course, is a day: October 31. But here, we celebrate with trick-or-treating over two days, with hours long past my children’s curfew. We also have a downtown celebration the Friday night before, so this year, that makes it October 29th, 30th, and 31st. And…