Leadership – Drew Downs

The Challenge of Following the Good Shepherd’s Liberating Voice

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8 min read

The image of Jesus as the Good Shepherd is comforting to many, but there is a problem with the way we aren’t listening to it.

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2 min read

Jesus’s teaching on secrecy and openness is complex. A more fundamental truth is needed for making sense of it: honesty.

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13 min read

Recent data shows the mainline clergy are more likely to be liberal than their congregations. We shouldn’t assume this is real. Or matters.

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3 min read

These are the three words I use to guide the year. It’s a practice I’ve been up to since 2016 and find it helps me focus.

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1 min read

Following a leader into the unknown is never an easy proposition. Following when death and the end of the movement is even harder.

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1 min read

The word “Messiah” is loaded with meaning—then and now. And that meaning is built around expectations that Jesus won’t embody.