Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

Gospel

  • 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”

  • Bartimaeus

    This Sunday was my first opportunity to preach at my new parish.  And what gospel do I get, but one of the deepest, most revealing stories in Mark–and therefore one of the most difficult. But in my wrestling with this pericope, something was awoken within me.  Something that still has me wrestling. My homily wasn’t…