Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

women

  • Between Easter 1 and 2 (Year B)

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    In the first of the resurrection stories in John, we are confronted by questions we generally avoid in church about faith, fear, and identity.

  • Those Women, That Morning: Friday of Holy Week

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    “As soon as it was morning” Read the Text: Mark 15:1-41 There is a startling character to the Passion story. The Jewish authorities are bloodthirsty. Pilate, speaking for Rome, is strangely indifferent. The soldiers humiliate Jesus. The disciples have deserted Jesus entirely. And the women, many women who followed Him, watch from a distance. I’m struck by…

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  • Confessions of an accidental feminist

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    Go read Rachel Held Evans’ Confessions of an accidental feminist. Very good stuff. I always laugh a little to myself when I receive a Google Alert informing me that someone on the internet has criticized me as a “bitter, angry woman” intent on destroying the Church with my “radical feminist agenda.” I laugh because if these…

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  • The Problem With Only Talking With Men About Women’s Issues

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    We don’t just need women in the room and at the table. We need women actually talking about women’s issues. And it needs to happen in front of a camera. Because it isn’t. Remember back in February, when we saw this picture? The one full of a bunch of white men testifying before Congress (full…

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  • For Pete’s Sake, Let Them Nurse!

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    I’m not sure why we even call nursing in public “controversial” since it is so very normal. Yet, we still think that the issue is complicated, just ask these Moms feeding their kids (gasp!) in uniform. Oh, the horror! We all know the root is about sex and sexualization of the female body. Which means…

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  • Russell: ‘Sadly and literally a “Sign of the times”‘

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    Russell: ‘Sadly and literally a “Sign of the times”‘Amen.

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