Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

Holy Spirit

  • [I have written several pieces on change and encourage you to find links to them here.] There is something startling about a Christian that doesn’t like change.  We have come to see our faith traditions as monolithic and unchanging.  We look back through our lives and we such static behavior coming from Christianity.  We are used to…

  • It is funny when you are in an organization that hears the word “change” and breaks out into metaphorical hives, because the response is predictable.  We hear the same chorus: “Why change anything, we’re doing fine.” “We’re not the church of what’s happenin’ now.”* “There’s so much change in the world, I want church to…