Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

learning

  • Episcopalians don’t only focus on what we believe or why.

  • One Table

    Receiving communion is an act of learning about God.

  • Lessons

    We’re in church to worship. And after the big opening, we slow it down, like the second track on an album; it’s time to have a seat, relax, and listen. Not all groups do worship the same way, but we nearly always read scripture. Arguably, it is the one constant. Even without music or prayer…

  • Wisdom to the Hebrew people wasn’t just learning, but was expressed in proverbs, teachings that could be memorized and shared. The more wisdom you had memorized, the wiser you were. the pursuit of wisdom, spirituality today Proper 15B  |   1 Kings 2:10-12; 3:3-14 & John  6:51-58 What is wisdom? Before we talk about Solomon’s legendary wisdom,…

  • Of course I love church. That goes without saying. But I don’t always love the church. I don’t always love the way we do church or the way we incarnate the church. It sometimes gets to me and drains me. Some of that is me. But a lot of it is the way we approach church as church members…

  • Learning in the absence of Jesus Lent 5B  |  John 12:20-33 Wishing to See “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.” It is a deceptively simple moment. We’d almost overlook it. These people come to Philip looking for Jesus. Philip goes to Andrew and they both go to Jesus. “Sir, we wish to see Jesus,” they…