Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

hope

  • How we usually imagine time: linear and consistent: is fun and useful. But it also reveals existential quandaries.

  • Sometimes times are tough. And for some, times are always tough. They tell us to wait for Superman. They’re wrong.

  • How did a movie about hope turn into a franchise about inevitable loss? It reflects our dysfunctional time.

  • First

    Going first is exciting and frightening: challenging and hopeful. It is also almost always where the magic happens.

  • Signs of Hope

    Jesus invites us to turn the story around. The signs we see aren’t omens of bad things, but as signs of hope.

  • A devotional for the First Sunday of Advent Collect Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness, and put on the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which your Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when…