Make Saints

We often talk about change like it's something we can avoid. It's not. It is literally how the world (and faith) works. Music by Lesfm and Coma-Media from Pixabay For more, visit drewdowns.net READ For more, visit drewdowns.net WATCH Videos on YouTube. CONTACT Tweet  @revdrewdowns Email contact@drewdowns.net Thanks for listening!

We don’t want to admit that we don’t know why we do Lent. Because then we might realize what we’re avoiding. Music by Lesfm and Coma-Media from Pixabay For more, visit drewdowns.net READ For more, visit drewdowns.net WATCH Videos on YouTube. CONTACT Tweet  @revdrewdowns Email contact@drewdowns.net Thanks for listening!

People often think they have a low view of mercy because they are being realistic. What they're being is pessimistic. Music by Lesfm and Coma-Media from Pixabay For more, visit drewdowns.net READ For more, visit drewdowns.net WATCH Videos on YouTube. CONTACT Tweet  @revdrewdowns Email contact@drewdowns.net Thanks for listening!

Christians are obsessed with sin. But what do we even mean by the word sin? And what are we trying to do with it? Music by Lesfm and Coma-Media from Pixabay For more, visit drewdowns.net READ For more, visit drewdowns.net WATCH Videos on YouTube. CONTACT Tweet  @revdrewdowns Email contact@drewdowns.net Thanks for listening!

When we hear "Remember you are dust and to dust you shall return," we are being invited to seeing things as they really are. Not as we think  they are. Music by Lesfm and Coma-Media from Pixabay For more, visit drewdowns.net READ For more, visit drewdowns.net WATCH Videos on YouTube. CONTACT Tweet  @revdrewdowns Email contact@drewdowns.net Thanks for listening!

Back from a break to tackle an easy topic: racism. As in what we think we mean when we talk about racism. And what our public conversations are missing. Music by Lesfm and Coma-Media from Pixabay For more, visit drewdowns.net READ For more, visit drewdowns.net WATCH Videos on YouTube. CONTACT Tweet  @revdrewdowns Email contact@drewdowns.net Thanks for listening!

In this episode of Make Saints, we tackle the twelve. As in disciples. What's with the number? And what to make of Judas. Music by Lesfm and Coma-Media from Pixabay For more, visit drewdowns.net READ For more, visit drewdowns.net WATCH Videos on YouTube. CONTACT Tweet  @revdrewdowns Email contact@drewdowns.net Thanks for listening!

In this episode of Make Saints, we tackle the two worlds of Christmas: the sacred and the secular: and why it is all one. Music by Lesfm and Coma-Media from Pixabay For more, visit drewdowns.net READ For more, visit drewdowns.net WATCH Videos on YouTube. CONTACT Tweet  @revdrewdowns Email contact@drewdowns.net Thanks for listening!

Our vision of peace is backward. We treat is like it is only a concept; and not something we can actually make. For more information about the observer effect, I found this summary useful . For more, visit drewdowns.net READ For more, visit drewdowns.net WATCH Videos on YouTube. CONTACT Tweet  @revdrewdowns Email contact@drewdowns.net Thanks for listening!

Joy – this shouldn’t be a hard thing to talk about. But strangely it is. And I want to change that. But first, let’s work through why joy, joy is what it is. For more, visit drewdowns.net READ For more, visit drewdowns.net WATCH Videos on YouTube. CONTACT Tweet  @revdrewdowns Email contact@drewdowns.net Thanks for listening!

There’s something about this time of year. There are two features of this season that we can’t help but exhibit: anticipation and preparation. We’re all waiting and watching for Christmas. It is coming soon. We want to get ready for it. So we prepare by getting gifts and making things to decorate or give away. These are really natural parts of the season. Not of the season of Christmas, actually....

These days, celebrating Thanksgiving is pretty meta. The holiday is supposed to be about giving thanks as the Pilgrims did that one time with a grand feast of local cuisine with the indigenous people who lived there. Of course, the myth is certainly rosier than the truth. And we know that makes the celebration a bit uncomfortable. So we shift our attention to the more general concept of thankfulne...

A Special Message I know you have thoughts about the young man who shot three people in Kenosha, Wisconsin. We all do. And, in a sense, that’s all our culture offers us right now: thoughts. Disparate, unconnected, intemperate thoughts. Let's make some sense of the confusing thing that happened on Friday. To read about this and more, visit drewdowns.net READ For more, visit drewdowns.net WATCH...

There are three distinct visions of what an apocalypse is. One is the popular understanding of apocalypse, which is best understood today by watching disaster movies. We can see that, to Hollywood, apocalypse is about all the things that blow up and how our time on this world will end. A second vision of apocalypse comes to us from a certain corner of Christianity that preaches extensively about w...

When talking about eternity, we are usually focused on the concept of life never ending. But life itself offers us a different vision of what it means. It all starts with that little thing we call time. To read about this and more, visit drewdowns.net READ For more, visit drewdowns.net WATCH Videos on YouTube. CONTACT Tweet  @revdrewdowns Email contact@drewdowns.net Thanks for listening!

The problem with complexity is that it can feel overwhelming. The problem with feeling overwhelmed is that we are willing to take shortcuts to make the pain go away. Here are three ways we usually deal with complexity: simplify harmonize give up I offer us a different way to look at complexity To read about this and more, visit drewdowns.net READ For more, visit drewdowns.net WATCH Videos on YouTu...

Who do you look up to? That act that we look up implies that they are above us. Whoever "they" is.  Above. Better. And...well...perfect. We aren't supposed to be perfect. Even you. To read about this and more, visit drewdowns.net READ For more, visit drewdowns.net WATCH Videos on YouTube. CONTACT Tweet  @revdrewdowns Email contact@drewdowns.net Thanks for listening!

Halloween is a holy day. To read about this and more, visit drewdowns.net READ For more, visit drewdowns.net WATCH Videos on YouTube. CONTACT Tweet  @revdrewdowns Email contact@drewdowns.net Thanks for listening!

What it means to look past the saintly. To read about this and more, visit drewdowns.net READ For more, visit drewdowns.net WATCH Videos on YouTube. CONTACT Tweet  @revdrewdowns Email contact@drewdowns.net Thanks for listening!