Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

power

  • The story of Jesus’s temptation in the wilderness is an invitation to examine our own relationship with power.

  • Listening

    The Transfiguration is not merely an event: it is a turning point in the work of teaching Jesus has been doing.

  • As we prepare for Lent, the lectionary will have us jump back to Matthew 4, for the temptation: which reverberates everywhere.

  • We are always obsessed with figuring out what the right thing to do is in any given situation. When a person is killed by police, that right thing becomes even more fraught. When the killing looks like murder and we can see it with our own eyes? Well…you get it. We want to know what…

  • The challenge of equality is that we want equal outcomes and equal practices to achieve those outcomes. Which is impossible.

  • While Jesus condemns the will to power, we can’t imagine a world without it. So maybe we should try harder.