Philippians 3

Cavan Concannon believes that the apostle’s writings belong in the latrine.

It’s Easter. Step into the future.

Martin Luther went looking for God—and found Christ on the cross.

These three stances toward God are the beginning of faith.

Paul is not ashamed of most parts of his background.

Wright tells a great story. Would the apostle recognize it?

The Apostle Paul shows the struggle to transcend the architecture of ego.

In her most recent book, Blessed Are the Consumers, Sallie McFague focuses on kenosis as the key element in shaping a Christian alternative to the pervasive religion of consumerism. McFague says that consumerism consists of those cultural patterns and practices by which people “find meaning and fulfillment through the consumption of goods and services.” We may rightly identify consumerism as a religion.

Like Willimon and Hauerwas, Donald MacKinnon began with Philippians 2.

We need the spiritual agility to recognize counter-hegemonic "citizenship in heaven" whenever and however it becomes flesh.

Texts about "striving" make me itch. They bring to mind our own cultural commitments to speak about lifting ourselves by our own bootstraps to reach high goals.

We need to repent of offering the world our charitable leftovers and then pouting when the world doesn’t say thank you.

When my friends and I sang at church camp, we sang sincerely, often teary-eyed, seated on the ground with the cross illumined by candlelight in front of us. In those emotional moments, I imagined myself to be standing firm in the Lord as Paul had urged the Philippians to do. In those moments, I was determined to set my face toward him. But my single-mindedness never lasted.