by drkeithcox | Jul 29, 2023 | randomthoughts
Throughout the Gospels, Jesus deals with the effects of death and a death-obsessed culture: violence, hatred, egotism, exclusion, false religion, phony community. But the final enemy he must face down is death itself. Like Frodo going into Mordor, he has to go into...
by drkeithcox | Jul 15, 2023 | randomthoughts
Most of us spend most of our lives defending ourselves against assaults on the “body”—keen, almost every waking moment, to protect our psyches, our emotions, our fortunes, our health, our reputations.When we do that, we warp ourselves, turning our lives defensively...
by drkeithcox | Oct 31, 2022 | randomthoughts
The Window in the Garden Wall–A C.S. Lewis BlogThe natural loves are not self-sufficient. Something else, at first vaguely described as ‘decency and common sense’, but later revealed as goodness, and finally as the whole Christian life in one...
by drkeithcox | Dec 16, 2020 | randomthoughts
Opinion | My church will replace our Black Lives Matter sign. Will America replace its racist myth?Do you hear what I hear? I hear the imperial American myth in the throes of its own death rattle. And I hear a people clamoring for a story by which to order their...
by drkeithcox | Dec 14, 2020 | randomthoughts
Opinion | The 10 most important things I’ve learned about trust over my 100 years George P. Shultz is a former U.S. secretary of labor, treasury and state, and was director of the Office of Management and Budget. He is a distinguished fellow at Stanford...
by drkeithcox | Dec 1, 2020 | randomthoughts
He had come to rescue people from sin, not Roman imperialism. And his great victory was won on the cross, not at the head of a liberating army. Still, for those who believed in him, the desert came alive with all the vibrant colors of grace, mercy, and joy.
