Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

Proper 16C

  • Suffering and Salvation – Liberation as the work of the community

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    10 min read

    A preacher was on vacation and came home to a flood “of Biblical proportions.” He spoke of needing to canoe out of his Louisiana house and escape the devastation. That the preacher is notorious for a sense of ill-will to many and is politically powerful gave the experience a sense of delicious irony. Proper 16C…

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  • Law and Liberation

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    6 min read

    a homily for Proper 16C Text: Luke 13:10-17   The third time’s a charm Let me start with a conceit. As is so often the case, what Jesus says and does is not heard the same way by everyone. Jesus is breaking the law. For those who benefit from the lawbreaking, particularly the woman in…

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