Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

communication

  • There’s still hope – Jesus, the yoke, and all of that shouting!

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    6 min read

    a Homily for Proper 9 A Text: Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30   Dance, Puppet! “It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to one another” This is how Jesus speaks to “the current generation,” His generation. Returning from seeing John the Baptist who summoned Him, to question Him. John, asking Jesus of Nazareth: Are you…

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  • What does Jesus communicate?

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    4 min read

    I have this feeling that we all live with a paradox about Jesus. On the one hand, we feel confident, every one of us, that we could actually answer that question What Would Jesus Do? And, at the same time, when pressed on what Jesus’s most important message is, we shuffle our feet, look at…

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  • Welcoming is Loving

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    7 min read

    Why the word you want is proclaim, not communicate a Homily for Proper 8 A Text: Matthew 10:40-42 Getting into it I struggled with this text a lot. Way more than any text in months. You wouldn’t guess that three little verses would be so hard. And you certainly wouldn’t expect a lectionary text about welcoming…

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  • Telling Stories – The Spirit, the Gospel, and Moving On (Pentecost)

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    9 min read

    a Homily for The Day of  Pentecost Text: Acts 2:1-21   Into the Unknown There are those moments when we read scripture that, if you’re anything like me, you are saying “Yeah…I’m not sure I would’ve done that.” Last week, we read about how Jesus left the disciples, disappearing behind a cloud. The disciples went back…

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  • Speaking: Palm Sunday and the liberation of Jesus

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    5 min read

    a Sermon for Palm Sunday A Text: Matthew 21:1-11 Something to Say What would you say and how would you say it? That was the basis of the writing exercise we did Wednesday night.* Imagine that you have a prime time block on TV on Thursday night; 50 million people are watching, you have a…

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  • Pursuing Inbox Zero

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    4 min read

    Email has changed in the last twenty years. And how we use it has changed completely. It may be time to speak about something new. The email inbox is just a digital version of the mailbox next to the street. You go, check your mail, and come back inside the house. Now our electronic correspondence isn’t…

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