Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

language

  • The first problem with the way we talk about our economy is that we use phrases that don’t mean what we think. The second is worse.

  • 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.