Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

Twitter

  • Open season for racists after Musk’s takeover

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    3 min read

    Elon Musk thinks he’s striking a victory for free speech. But responsibility is what people are fighting over.

  • One simple way the church can stop failing our daughters

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    4 min read

    The church is failing our daughters and one thing can change that: we make their well-being a priority. Because right now, we aren’t. We claim love, diversity, equality, faith, commitment, responsibility, duty, honor, respect and so much more are our values, and we do a lot of good things. But what is our greatest priority?…

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  • Tweeting in Church: a Good Gateway Drug

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    2 min read

    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…

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  • On Ecclesiology: Leadership, Emergence, and #Occupy

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    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…

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