80 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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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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Protest Again
Many of us have become so disconnected from what it means for the state to respond to protest—for we cannot kill for peace, or for safety.Photo by Spenser H on UnsplashREADFor more, visit drewdowns.netWATCHVideos on YouTube.CONTACTTweet @revdrewdownsEmail contact@drewdowns.net Thanks for listening!
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Criticism
When we give so much of our time and attention to evaluating, judging, and rating the stuff in our lives, can we actually like things?Photo by Markus Winkler on UnsplashREADFor more, visit drewdowns.netWATCHVideos on YouTube.CONTACTTweet @revdrewdownsEmail contact@drewdowns.net Thanks for listening!