Among the extant epistles of Paul there is none more genial in its attitude and more revealing of the author than the epistle to the Philippians. Like an excerpt from an intimate diary, this short ...

It was a tough decision for Rick Cassidy as he began graduate studies at the University of Michigan in mid-1960s. Would he take the course on Imperial Rome, because of his love of history, or the ...

At church, I have been preaching a series of messages from the Epistle to the Philippians. Currently we are looking at ...

Paul’s letter to the Philippians puts me in mind of the annual ritual of Christmas letters and how much I enjoy receiving them, though I have to admit that sometimes the correspondence can veer off ...

The knowledge that God has loved me beyond all limits will compel me to go into the world to love others in the same way. Am I prepared to be identified so closely with the Lord Jesus that His life ...

St. Polycarp was the bishop of Smyrna and a disciple of St. John, according to St. Irenaeus (c. 130-c. 202) and Tertullian (c. 155-c. 220). I’d like to examine his Epistle to the Philippians. It ...

Epaphroditus lived in the Macedonian city of Philippi (now ruins in present-day Greece), seemingly the first European city to receive Christianity, as described in the 16th chapter of Acts. At various ...

Within Christian circles it is quite common for someone to say that a verse of scripture has had a special meaning for them, or even has caused a life-changing moment. Yet one book of the Bible ...

“It is astonishing,” wrote Karl Barth, “how many references there are in the Old and New Testaments to delight, joy, bliss, exultation, merry-making, and rejoicing, and how emphatically these are ...

Hans Kung says that Jesus and Paul remained celibate. Well, there may be evidence to the contrary. The gospels show Jesus regularly preaching in the synagogue and rabbinic custom held that in order to ...