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Seminary Spotlight: Wesley Seminary
Wesley Seminary at Indiana Wesleyan University has had an integrative mission from its founding in 2009. It is against this backdrop that we view our partnership with, and participation in, the Oikonomia Network. There are strong affinities between the way Wesley...
Seminary Spotlight: Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
One of the many things we have discussed among our faculty and with our students over the past five years is how work and economics represent a major arena in our lives, through which we have opportunities to love and serve our neighbors. It is a reminder that we...
New EWP Talk: The Portable Trinity
The Trinity isn’t about counting to three, it’s about the God who sends us – including the “sending” we can remember and rest upon in our daily work. That’s the message of Fred Sanders’ talk at Karam Forum 2019, now available as an Economic Wisdom Project Talk for use...
Vocation & TOW Curricular Workshops: Insights
This the latest in a series of articles sharing insights from a joint curricular development initiative of the ON, the Theology of Work Project and three ON schools (Asbury, Assemblies of God and Western). Previous articles in this series have dealt with...
Miroslav Volf on the Crisis of Theology
At a joint meeting of the 2019 ON faculty retreat and three ON-sponsored scholarly colloquia, Miroslav Volf gave a provocative talk on “The Crisis of Theology.” Speaking after dinner on January 2, just before Karam Forum, Volf laid out what he saw as the nature of the...
Moses, Modern Finance, and Payday Lending
When friends learned I was studying lending in the Old Testament, some asked: What about “payday loans”? Let’s see how the Old Testament’s teaching about loan ethics applies to this controversial practice. As we have seen, one component of Old Testament...
Seminary Spotlight: Sioux Falls Seminary
Previous articles on Sioux Falls Seminary have shared stories of how our innovative approach to theological education, Kairos, is enabling students to cultivate human flourishing in both ecclesial and non-traditional contexts of ministry. Since the Kairos model was...
Seminary Spotlight: LABI College
Founded in 1926 by Alice E. Luce, LABI College is one of the oldest Hispanic Bible Colleges in the country. Over the past ninety-two years, LABI has trained and equipped thousands of pastors, ministers, superintendents and professional leaders. Recently, LABI has made...
New ON Impact Report
At Karam Forum in Dallas, the Oikonomia Network presented its new 2018 Impact Report. This document introduces the mission and vision of the network, with an overview of who our partners are and what we're doing; provides testimonies and statistics on the scope of our...
Our New Curricular Integration Page
As a new semester begins - and due dates for next year's syllabi are coming up - it's a great time to think afresh about curricular integration of oikonomia issues in your classes. The insights of whole-life discipleship, fruitful work and economic wisdom are not some...