Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

Proper 29B

  • A Misplaced Monarchy

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    10 min read

    As we celebrate the final Sunday of the church year, we engage with matters of kingship, authority, and why we get it all mixed up.

  • From the bottom up, again

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    2 min read

    The challenge of Christ the King Sunday is that we need to deconstruct the nature of kings and kingdoms and then tell it again.

  • A life of service and grace—for Proper 29B

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    3 min read

    As Jesus’s conversation with Pontius Pilate unfolds, we see his bewilderment at what is going on, because kings must have power.

  • Between Proper 28 + 29 (Year B)

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    2 min read

    Preparing for the last Sunday after Pentecost gives us a chance to confront the question of power and kingship from below.

  • Better Than a King

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    8 min read

    Christians have long called Jesus their king as a way of describing his place. The trouble is just how much that limits him.

  • Dealing with Power

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    3 min read

    The Last Sunday after Pentecost – Proper 29BJohn 18:33-37 Collect Almighty and everlasting God, whose will it is to restore all things in your well-beloved Son, the King of kings and Lord of lords: Mercifully grant that the peoples of the earth, divided and enslaved by sin, may be freed and brought together under his…