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Brian Fikkert: The Church and Economics
Getting richer is not making us happier. At the 2018 ON faculty retreat, Brian Fikkert of the Chalmers Center for Economic Development spoke to why that is, why it represents a radical challenge to the narratives that dominate the discipline of economics, and how the...
Teaching Historical Theology: Perspectives on Calling
Calling language has been pervasive in theology since at least Martin Luther. Sometimes we speak as if God only calls people away from ordinary secular work into church mission or ordained ministry. But does God also call some people to stay, and serve God in their...
Seminary Spotlight: Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Southern Seminary’s Commonweal Project on Faith, Work and Human Flourishing recently completed our fourth year of initiatives designed to engage and equip faculty, students, pastors and ultimately churches with a biblical understanding of work and economic wisdom. It...
Person and Property in the Pentateuch
Note: This article spotlights the work of David Baker, who has been named an individual faculty partner in the Oikonomia Network. It is adapted from his article “Are Business People the Bad Guys? Person and Property in the Pentateuch,” Southwestern Journal of Theology...
Celebrating Karam Forum 2018 and Announcing Karam Forum 2019
Theological educators and Christian academics came together in Los Angeles for Karam Forum 2018 on January 4-5, a time of collaboration, encouragement and equipping. We thought together about the nature of flourishing, the connection between theology and daily life,...
Two New EWP Talks: Israel’s Land Laws and Our Economic Mission
We continue to release new EWP Talks as part of our flipped conference at Karam Forum 2018. These two new talks look at what we can learn for our own economic lives from the Mosaic land laws (and the prophets’ anger when those laws were broken), and how the mission of...
Greg Jones: Traditioned Innovation and the Back to Egypt Committee
At the 2018 ON faculty retreat, which took place just before Karam Forum, we were richly blessed by a keynote address from Greg Jones of Duke Divinity School. Reflecting on his 13 years’ tenure as that school’s dean, his experiences as provost of Baylor University and...
Recommended Assessment Tools
Your school has built in curricular elements dealing with all the “oikonomia” themes. Great. You’ve been talking about whole-life discipleship and stewardship, value creation and opportunities for the poor, vocation outside the church walls and responsible action....
Seminary Spotlight: Sioux Falls Seminary
In fall 2014, Sioux Falls Seminary launched the Kairos Project, a unique approach to theological education. The Kairos Project is an outcome-based program that uses mentor teams to oversee students. Assignments are adaptable, and each program emphasizes contextually...
Seminary Spotlight: LABI College/LATS
Founded in 1926 by Alice Luce, LABI College is the nation’s oldest Hispanic Bible College. Over the past ninety years, LABI has trained and equipped thousands of pastors, ministers, superintendents and professional leaders. Since joining the Oikonomia Network in 2016,...