82 episodes
Make Saints Drew Downs
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- Religion & Spirituality
Because (eternal) life is hard. We all need help; with life, work, love, and everything else. Make Saints is a podcast about that side of life. The part that's hard but seems like it's supposed to be easy. And that moment when we realize that none of us is perfect.
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Revisiting Literalism
The thing about being literal is that we think we’re being accurate, but we’re often being pedantic. And refuse to see it.Photo by team voyas on UnsplashREADFor more, visit drewdowns.netWATCHVideos on YouTube.CONTACTTweet @revdrewdownsEmail contact@drewdowns.net Thanks for listening!
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Active Adaptation
We have to start preparing ourselves to proactively adapt for the future to put less pressure on our future selves.Here’s what I mean about the struggle we have with recognizing things haven’t always been this way.Photo by Kelly Sikkema on UnsplashREADFor more, visit drewdowns.netWATCHVideos on YouTube.CONTACTTweet @revdrewdownsEmail contact@drewdowns.net Thanks for listening!
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Getting used to it
Our brains have a natural capacity to adapt. But we often use this natural capacity to refuse to learn, or pretend we were always right.Photo by Transly Translation Agency on UnsplashREADFor more, visit drewdowns.netWATCHVideos on YouTube.CONTACTTweet @revdrewdownsEmail contact@drewdowns.net Thanks for listening!
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Literalism doesn’t mean much anymore
We’re driving the very concept of “literal” to such an extreme that it is becoming meaningless. And we’re all actually avoiding the truth.Photo by Robert Anasch on UnsplashREADFor more, visit drewdowns.netWATCHVideos on YouTube.CONTACTTweet @revdrewdownsEmail contact@drewdowns.net Thanks for listening!
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Magical Thinking
The way we see the world is full of optimism and pessimism. It is also full of blindspots and assumptions for how things will be.Photo by Anthony Tori on UnsplashREADFor more, visit drewdowns.netWATCHVideos on YouTube.CONTACTTweet @revdrewdownsEmail contact@drewdowns.net Thanks for listening!
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Being Different
The long, strange history of the call to being different is now mostly found in chicken-little cries of oppression and demands for hegemonic culture.Photo by Ricardo Arce on UnsplashREADFor more, visit drewdowns.netWATCHVideos on YouTube.CONTACTTweet @revdrewdownsEmail contact@drewdowns.net Thanks for listening!
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