Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

language

  • Why do so many arguments sound logical, but we know aren’t? The problem is that we are stuck in ever-expanding contours of truth.

  • For SundayTwelfth Sunday after Pentecost Collect Almighty God, you have given your only Son to be for us a sacrifice for sin, and also an example of godly life: Give us grace to receive thankfully the fruits of his redeeming work, and to follow daily in the blessed steps of his most holy life; through…

  • We all know what the mob boss means. We must stop pretending like the words themselves are the problem here.

  • How we understand a situation influences what we think of it. Sometimes we need to change the way we classify the world around us.

  • You’ve heard people refer to appealing to “the marketplace of ideas.” It’s a pretty clumsy way to refer to a negotiation.

  • For many, talking about racism and white supremacy is hard. Of course, that’s by design. The white power movement intends to confuse you. The terms always guide the debate. But sometimes we mistake our seeking clarity of the terms for doing the work. There are so many names for racists and their organizations. Are we…