Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

Episcopal Church

  • Church: Club, Community, or Neither?

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    Awhile back I wrote about how much I hate announcement time.  Go back and take a look at it, because I feel justified in saying that.  Announcement time, as I’ve experienced it in the several congregations I’ve served has, for the most part, been a horrible train wreck.  This is mostly the case because it is…

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  • Advent Reflection by the Presiding Bishop

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    The Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church released a short Advent reflection.  Set aside a couple peaceful minutes for it: Happy Advent, everybody!

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  • Tweeting in Church: a Good Gateway Drug

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    Tweeting at a wedding: an Episcopal wedding, no less!  Two social media savvy people were married Saturday in a fully-media-integrated wedding.  Their plan, to heavily invest the event with all of their contacts, resides in that wonderful terrain in which we figure out what we consider “acceptable”.  The couple, blogging at #3xCharm, have made the…

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  • Bp. Robinson on Occupy Wall Street

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    I’m a little late in posting this, but I am happy to see other Episcopalians talking about this in an honest and direct way.

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  • 5 Keys to Engaging Mid-Lifers in church

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    One of my good church friends is Jimmy*.  Jimmy is a Baby Boomer, served in Vietnam, runs a small business he owns.  He, like many of his generation, grew up going to church and spent the middle twenty or so years not. Jimmy and I would talk about what matters…

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  • Renegades of Funk (Monday Mixtape)

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    Now renegades are the people with their own philosophies They change the course of history Everyday people like you and me We’re the renegades we’re the people With our own philosophies We change the course of history Everyday people like you and me As I said in my homily yesterday, the stuff that got Jesus…

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