Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

Proper 5B

  • Our responsibility to the whole human family

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    8 min read

    Jesus pushes us on the theological convictions we take for granted—and invites us to develop a greater trust in our common work together.

  • This family comes first

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    5 min read

    We struggle with talking about family because we have conflicting ideas about the idea, and more importantly, how we embody it.

  • A Bigger Family—for Proper 5B

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    2 min read

    We focus this week on the way Jesus redefines family. And why this whole story gives us trouble in a world devoted to the nuclear family unit.

  • Between Proper 4 + 5 (Year B)

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    7 min read

    This week, we skip over an important piece of the story—that the threat the crowds have on Jesus’s ministry—and the calling of the apostles.

  • Jesus’s Backup

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    7 min read

    This troubling passage about family isn’t about who is in the family, but about what being family means for the world.

  • Jesus’s Life Was Always In Danger

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    3 min read

    For SundaySecond Sunday after PentecostProper 5B Collect O God, from whom all good proceeds: Grant that by your inspiration we may think those things that are right, and by your merciful guiding may do them; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and…