Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

feeding of the multitudes

  • Our own experience of the miracle feeding of the multitudes is often plagued by the skepticism that creates the need for it.

  • Our gospel this week switches over to John 6, which tells the story we skipped in Mark 6. It’s just that this version is a little different.

  • In this week’s gap in the lectionary, we have a familiar story—that fleshes out the wider story more fully…if we read it in its context.

  • The Feeding

    The third in a series of reflections on the gospels. In this one, we dive into John 6:1-21.

  • For SundayNinth Sunday after Pentecost Collect O God, the protector of all who trust in you, without whom nothing is strong, nothing is holy: Increase and multiply upon us your mercy; that, with you as our ruler and guide, we may so pass through things temporal, that we lose not the things eternal; through Jesus…

  • They Did Not Understand About the Loaves (Day 21 of A Simple Lent) Friday This is one of the most pointed moments in the gospel of Mark: Jesus has provided for the multitudes at a time when the disciples were exhausted and needed a break and Jesus wanted to give it to them, but he…