Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

Liturgical year

  • Why does it matter when we celebrate the Feast of Stephen? John? Holy Innocents? The challenge of tradition, innovation, and formation.

  • Eating Luke 3:1-6 Back in the recesses of my mind I recall a lyric: Second verse same as the first! A little bit louder and a little bit worse! We ended Year B talking apocalyptic and we begin the new year, Year C, by…talking apocalyptic. Personally, I love it. We just aren’t that used to…

  • Happy New Year, everybody! This is, of course, the Christian New Year. It looks and feels a little different than the day we associate with New Year’s.  Penitential purple?  Ugh. So we begin Advent, and the new year, with Jesus telling his disciples about the end of things.  We begin at the end. Today, we aren’t…