Drew Thomas Humphrey

Drew Thomas Humphrey

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  • The Righteousness of Rage

    The Righteousness of Rage

    My wife and I make it to the movie theater about once a year—maybe twice if we’re lucky and have a gift card. But even then, we attend merely as chaperones and financiers, dutifully setting aside our own cinematic preferences in order to allow our eager offspring the rare pleasure of stuffing buttery popcorn in […]

    Drew

    March 22, 2018
    Articles
    Anger, Current Events, Race
  • Prayers and Politics

    Prayers and Politics

    Unfortunately, this script is starting to become familiar. A mass shooting takes place. A group of grieved and angry people react by calling for stricter gun control laws. A second group of grieved and angry people react to the first group by admonishing them not to politicize a tragedy. The first group says, “Well, your […]

    Drew

    February 18, 2018
    Articles
    Current Events, Gun Control, Politics, Prayer
  • My 6 Favorite Reads of 2017

    My 6 Favorite Reads of 2017

    Each year, I give myself a reading goal and work hard to meet it. Not because I want to be legalistic and bind myself to some arbitrary bar of achievement. But because I find that a steady, disciplined commitment to spending time in the company of books can often lead to an unexpected array of […]

    Drew

    December 18, 2017
    Articles
    2017, Books, Reading
  • When You Feel Like a Tourist

    When You Feel Like a Tourist

    Ben Gibbard is a brilliant songwriter. He does just about everything in his craft well. But perhaps what he does best is this: taking that vague, undefined emotion you’ve never quite been able to describe, and then describing it for you in a way that leaves you saying, “Yes! That’s it!” Pull a random Death […]

    Drew

    November 28, 2017
    Articles
    Church, Evangelicalism, Identity, Politics
  • 5 Questions about Patriotism

    5 Questions about Patriotism

    For the past couple weeks, I’ve had an article in the works about the great kneeling debate that has been swirling around the sports world. But then this weekend happened and everyone went bananas, so I scratched that article and decided to go in a different direction altogether. Yesterday as NFL players protested and the […]

    Drew

    September 25, 2017
    Articles
    Current Events, Patriotism, Sports
  • Reflecting on MLK Day

    Reflecting on MLK Day

    This weekend our family was given a terrific gift from the Lafayette School Corporation: a three-day weekend for our hard-working little kindergartener. But the real gift wasn’t in the fact that she got to stay home from school on Monday (as great as that was). The real gift was in the reason behind it. Anyone […]

    Drew

    January 17, 2017
    Articles
    MLK Day, Privilege, Race
  • My 6 Favorite Reads of 2016

    My 6 Favorite Reads of 2016

    I like to read books. And although I’m in a profession where reading is somewhat of a requirement (beware the preacher who doesn’t read!), I would be lying if I said that I didn’t find a good deal of sheer pleasure in taking up a book and working through its pages. Yes, I read so that I […]

    Drew

    December 18, 2016
    Articles
    2016, Books, Reading
  • Why I’m Sad

    Why I’m Sad

    I’ve spent the last 24 hours in a daze. At 9:56pm yesterday, I incredulously texted my wife on my way out of a meeting, “Trump might win this election.” That was when the New York Times had just updated their prediction, giving him a 51% chance to secure the presidency. But even then, I didn’t […]

    Drew

    November 9, 2016
    Articles
    Culture, Election 2016, Politics
  • The Parable of the Leaf

    The Parable of the Leaf

    Once upon a time there was a leaf. Well, technically it was a bud—a tiny little ball of raw potential perched proudly on the tip of a branch in the cool springtime sun. Its home was a weathered old maple that for years had been stationed next to a well-traveled pathway, its mighty branches bowing […]

    Drew

    October 28, 2015
    Articles
    Beauty, Encouragement, Suffering
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