Drew Downs

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  • Drew Downs

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    Tweeting in Church: a Good Gateway Drug

    Tweeting at a wedding: an Episcopal wedding, no less!  Two social media savvy people were married Saturday in a fully-media-integrated wedding.  Their plan, to heavily invest the event with all of their contacts, resides in that wonderful terrain in which we figure out what we consider “acceptable”.  The couple, blogging at #3xCharm, have made the…

  • On Ecclesiology: Leadership, Emergence, and #Occupy

    Drew Downs

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    On Ecclesiology: Leadership, Emergence, and #Occupy

    In the Premodern world, humanity was led by “the divine right of kings,” in other words, authority was bestowed upon a singular human authority from a divine source. In the Modern world, humanity was led by singular representation.  Authority was bestowed on an individual to represent the people, either through fiat or election. The Enlightenment…