Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

deconstruction

  • 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…

  • Friday

    let’s deal with “the greater sin”

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • When a happy holiday emerges from an unmoving, stable tradition, perhaps the first reaction shouldn’t be surprise. It should be joy.

  • One of the most amazing things to me is the varying expressions of church that there are already.  We allow in our minds the thought that Catholics and Baptists can both be worshiping on Sunday mornings.  This doesn’t hurt our brains. But for some reasons, the modernists, the skeptics, and the trolls among us cannot…