Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

Luke 24

  • Between Easter 2 + 3 (Year A)

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    2 min read

    With the move to the third week of Easter, we switch to Luke’s gospel. To find ourselves focused in a different direction.

  • The Invisible Revolution

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    6 min read

    The road to Emmaus reveals the dream of God This is among the most famous walks in history. Two followers of Jesus meet a stranger on the road and walk with him, only to find out the stranger is Jesus. It’s a great metaphor for the confusion and misunderstanding of the faithful. For the ones who came…

  • Do This and Live

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    6 min read

    After working our way through the great symbols of Holy Week: the palms and the Triumphal Entry on Sunday; the shutting down of the Temple on Monday and Teaching there Tuesday; the anointing of Jesus and the betrayal plans of Judas on Wednesday; the Last Supper and the washing of feet on Thursday; the Cross…

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  • We are Witnesses

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    7 min read

    From the tomb to our lives Easter 3B  |  Luke 24:36b-48 The Physical Resurrection This moment we receive here in this third Sunday of Easter is another gospel treatment of the resurrection. At the vigil, we had Mark’s empty tomb, then on Sunday we had John’s empty tomb. Last week we had Jesus’s appearance to…

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  • Walk, Talk, Stop: the road to Emmaus and the Christian experience

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    5 min read

    a Homily for Easter 3A Text: Luke 24:13-35   The Walk and Talk When Aaron Sorkin’s show, The West Wing debuted in 1999, it pioneered a technique dubbed “The Walk and Talk”. Shows before The West Wing featured plenty of walking and plenty of talking and even plenty of people walking while talking. But no show…

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  • Jesus Verbs

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    a homily for Ascension Day Text: Luke 24:44-53 The Ascension is pretty much the hardest part of the Jesus Event for the post-Enlightenment world to get. It seems as if we can suspend our disbelief only so far. And the Ascension is just too much. And yet, we might be asking the wrong question. Listen…

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