Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

society

  • The church, like the secular world, has a management problem: we are too focused on maintaining the status quo, that we are failing both our intentions and our desperate desire for maintenance. Perhaps the solution can be found in asking a different question.

  • Here’s a new video by Richard Reising. What are we communicating on a Sunday morning–let alone a Tuesday afternoon? Why should your church get a free pass from healthy critical analysis?

  • Our habit is to argue over the form and politics of our faith, but, as the question raised by the chicken and the egg might suggest, aren’t we looking in the wrong spot for assurance?

  • Just dance

    You have to admit it: Ellen DeGeneres is the epitome of honesty. Comedian, yes. Talk show host, yes. And yet, she’s honest. There is no character, nothing objectionable, and absolutely nothing fake. If you haven’t seen her commencement speech, you need to. It’s about 10 and a half minutes and it’s great. You can watch…