Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

priesthood

  • into the wild

    Though I’ve read the book by Jon Krakauer, this isn’t a book review, or even a direct allusion. But maybe it is. It seems as if we are bound to our domesticated life by shear will and determination. It is out in the wild that we actually yearn to live. Maybe its time we moved…

  • Today, so much is expected out of bishops, that they aren’t able to do any of those things.

  • If you are following my ongoing discussion of seminary (previous posts here and here), you might want to check out these other places, including this one from Tribal Church and a particularly good conversation at Sarx (as directed from the other link).

  • I loved seminary.  I continue to believe in it.  I would be completely unprepared for the priesthood had I not done seminary.  In fact, I might be the poster child for pre-seminary idiocy and indifference to the workings of the church.  Seminary is the training ground, afterall, for the future leaders of the church.  Seminary…

  • A first in a series of posts about the nature of seminary–what it is and what it is not–and what it hopes to be in the future. This post deals with the charge of the primacy of politics.