Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

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  • Compassion

    The physical nature of the Compassionate Samaritan story can reveal a deep-rooted internal struggle in all of us.

  • I talk back to my TV. I don’t do it regularly.  I also don’t expect my TV to respond.  I don’t expect the actors in my favorite shows to stop, mid-script, turn their heads toward me, and respond to my comments or anything. But, from time-to-time, I need to respond.  Two shows seem to draw…

  • This is the second of a tw0-part series covering David Rudel’s Who Really Goes To Hell?—The Gospel You’ve Never Heard. Rudel looks at how Scripture (The Bible) and our understanding of GOD’s purpose and of Jesus (The Gospel) intersect and where they diverge. My introduction can be found here and Section 1 is here. In…

  • I’ve just started reading Who Really Goes to Hell–The Gospel You’ve Never Heard: What a Protestant Bible written by Jews says about God’s work through Christ by David I. Rudel.  An intriguing title in itself but the caption underneath it made me all the more interested: “(A book for those in the church and those…

  • 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…

  • If we are to listen to the media coverage surrounding The Episcopal Church, one would think that there aren’t any conservatives left. Man, are they wrong!