Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

Debt

  • Debt it is often treated as the neutral arbiter of balance. But it is the way we justify inequality, enslavement, and separation.

  • We allow people to offer a dishonest critique of the argument for cancelling student debt based on false powerlessness.

  • If the debt doesn’t kill you… Proper 19A  | Matthew 18:21-35 Remember the stumbling blocks? It’s been Jesus’s main subject in the last several weeks of gospel readings. As they head north, Jesus warns of those things which get in our way, trip us up, and keep us from doing what needs to be done.…

  • There’s a moment at the end of a night when the sounds have disappeared and conversations fade. You look around and see the stragglers are all that’s left of the party. Often ones who helped set up or planned to help clean up. Ones who wait until everyone else is gone so that the real conversation can…

  • There’s a single word in the Lord’s Prayer we often miss. Remember a few weeks ago how the disciples asked Jesus how to pray? He responded with a familiar prayer about hallowing, heaven, and daily bread. Then he says And forgive us our sins,for we ourselves forgive everyone indebted to us. Did you notice? Jesus links sin and indebtedness.…

  • “There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody.”