Drew Downs

Tag: deconstruction

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    Don’t fear deconstruction

    As part of an ongoing project, I’m collecting some instructive ideas and understandings on this site into a new category called “Emergence“.  You can click on it in the headings above or click through the link.  I plan on describing what emergence is and what the emerging church means for liturgical and social justice Christians…

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    Compassion

    The physical nature of the Compassionate Samaritan story can reveal a deep-rooted internal struggle in all of us.

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    Section 2: Judgment–Tearing Down Mansions

    This is the second of a tw0-part series covering David Rudel’s Who Really Goes To Hell?—The Gospel You’ve Never Heard. Rudel looks at how Scripture (The Bible) and our understanding of GOD’s purpose and of Jesus (The Gospel) intersect and where they diverge. My introduction can be found here and Section 1 is here. In…

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    Sunday

    Part Three. Here are parts one and two. Over the last few days I’ve been reflecting on the nature of sin and humanity; GOD and Jesus; death and loss and what comes next.  And the reality is that Sunday is the one day we feel ready to deal with.  We read the Passion only so…

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    Saturday

    I played around with the idea of leaving a blank post.  Get it?  Absence…I decided that doing that would be perhaps a little too cryptic/existentialist. Yesterday we dealt with one of the problems of Good Friday, the day God died.  The day we remember the tragedy and triumph of Jesus’s death by crucifixion.  This happens…

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    Friday

    let’s deal with “the greater sin”

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    into the wild

    Though I’ve read the book by Jon Krakauer, this isn’t a book review, or even a direct allusion. But maybe it is. It seems as if we are bound to our domesticated life by shear will and determination. It is out in the wild that we actually yearn to live. Maybe its time we moved…

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    I’m not laughing – for the reason you think I am

    Church signs are my version of the car accident: I know I shouldn’t look at them, but I can’t pull my eyes away from them.