Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

Youth

  • Failure, control, and empowering kids in the church

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    8 min read

    The challenge of the Passion Predictions is that they force us to confront our failure to follow Jesus, to love in the way he teaches.

  • Our teens are overcommitted. Here’s Why.

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    4 min read

    Mental health, anxiety, depression. Teens are facing more challenges than ever. Because we made it this way.

  • So This is Where We Are

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    2 min read

    SO THIS IS WHERE WE ARE Teenage survivors speak out. The media follows the story. Some grown-ups pass pictures of the teens with targets on their chests. An adult talk show host teases a teen for not getting into all the schools. Calls come for advertisers to pull ads from her show. Some don’t. One…

  • Not the Sacraments, But the Sacramental

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    9 min read

    A Fad That emerging church stuff is just a fad. the young priest said to me. This was right after I told him I had just come back from a conference. It was 2010 and a group of emergence Episcopalians sponsored a church planting conference called Episcopal Village. It was a clear nod to Emergent Village.…

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  • How to blame youth for injustice

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    6 min read

    So you want to learn how to blame youth for injustice in your city? Well, you’ve come to the right place. I think the way Baltimore’s Freddie Gray protests have been handled can serve as a great template for assigning blame to a defenseless population. First you have to start with a simmering kettle that is…

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  • How Generosity Could Save the Church

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    7 min read

    I’m going to come right out and say it. The economics of future-proofing the church are directly dependent on the generosity of older generations. If the church as we know it is to survive the next two decades, it’ll be because something changed. Either we changed or the culture changed. Or maybe the circumstances changed. Or all…

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