Karam Forum will gather at Doxology Bible Church in Ft. Worth, with an option to join via Zoom, this November 18-19. We will continue tilling new soil in the fields of justice and discipleship in theological education, and our signature “TED-style” talks will explore key insights on this topic from Christian history. Join us to […]
Financial Health as Restored Community, Not Just Upward Mobility
Note: Originally published by the Chalmers Center; reprinted with permission. What would you do if you received a windfall of money today? Imagine $20,000 fell into your lap. How would you use that amount of cash, no strings attached? Go for it. Dream! Some of us might finance a new car for reliable, stylish transportation. […]
Black Lives Matter – And the Church Knows Why
Note: Excerpt from Why Black Lives Matter (ed. Anthony Bradley, Wipf & Stock 2020). The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement grew in response to a number of African Americans who were killed because of the actions of police. These men and women include Trayvon Martin, Renisha McBride, Eric Garner, John Crawford, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice […]
Testifying in Theological Education
Note: Excerpt from Notes of a Native Daughter (Eerdmans 2021) as part of the book series Theological Education between the Times. Reprinted by permission of the publisher. Citations have been omitted. This small book is about how to bear witness to more liberating futures in theological education. Yet before we can envision potential futures, we […]
Virtue Creates Value, When We Set It Free
The vision of the Economic Wisdom Project is summarized in twelve “elements” that provide starting points for thoughtful, biblically informed understanding of contemporary opportunities and challenges. For a handy guide to the twelve elements, download this one-page summary, taken from our EWP vision paper “A Christian Vision for Flourishing Communities”: Below is an excerpt from the paper “Twelve Elements of Economic […]
Seminary Spotlight: Wesley Seminary
Note: This is a video update from one of our partner schools. A transcript is provided below. We are Wesley Seminary. Our mission is to prepare Christian leaders to engage in missional ministry locally and globally. Wesley Seminary is committed to serving Christian leaders called by God to do kingdom work, whether they serve in […]
Justice and Discipleship at Karam Forum – Live in Ft. Worth or via Zoom, Nov. 18-19
How can we prepare future leaders to see justice as essential to discipleship, and discipleship as essential to justice? That will be our focus at Karam Forum this November 18-19. Chris Brooks, Jennifer Powell McNutt, Gavin Ortlund, David French, Michael Wear and more will help us draw on the wells of theological knowledge as we prepare future […]
Surprised by Satisfaction: Faculty Find a Calling in Dual Roles
“I spent twenty-plus years in what I call Teach, Write and Otherwise Leave Me Alone Mode. And it was wonderful, and I would have been perfectly happy to continue in that mode for the duration,” said Scott Rae of the Talbot School of Theology in our April 15 webinar about faculty taking on dual institutional […]
Preparing Students for the Gig Economy
Maybe they will thank me someday. I sound like a mother talking about her children, but I’m a professor talking about my students. Last semester, some of them complained about the unit I assigned them on working in the gig economy. They said it was irrelevant to their ministry. It may have seemed so then, […]
Success Is Creating Value, Not Making Money
The vision of the Economic Wisdom Project is summarized in twelve “elements” that provide starting points for thoughtful, biblically informed understanding of contemporary opportunities and challenges. For a handy guide to the twelve elements, download this one-page summary, taken from our EWP vision paper “A Christian Vision for Flourishing Communities”: Below is an excerpt from the paper “Twelve Elements of Economic […]
Theological Education in Diaspora
Note: Excerpt from Attempt Great Things for God (Eerdmans 2020) as part of the book series Theological Education between the Times. Reprinted by permission of the publisher. Citations have been omitted. Our era is one of rapid and widespread dispersion of people. Numerous people groups are migrating, relocating or being displaced from their countries of […]
Seminary Spotlight: Covenant Theological Seminary
Covenant Seminary helps its students explore their calling in a variety of ways. Skills are important to equipping our students for their callings. But character is more important. For a clear justification of this approach, consider what what happens when character is neglected. At its national convention this year, The Gospel Coalition invited Mike Kruger […]
Join Karam Fellowship Today as We Launch the Second Decade of Our Community
Folks, there are days when the Oikonomia Network has news to share, and then there days when it really has news to share. Today is the latter! First things first: Karam Forum 2021 registration is officially open – register today! Chris Brooks, Jennifer Powell McNutt, David French, Michael Wear and more will lead us in […]
“For Not Only a Surviving Future, But a Flourishing Future”
“We are all undergoing major reengineering and transformation at our institutions, to try to navigate for not only a surviving future, but a flourishing future,” said Barry Corey, president of Biola University, in our March 25 webinar on the future of theological education. Corey, Dean Abson Joseph of Wesley Seminary and Professor Ellen Marmon of […]
A Modest Proposal for Evangelical Theology’s Reckoning with Race
Note: Excerpt from Reckoning with Race and Performing the Good News: In Search of a Better Evangelical Theology (Brill 2020). Reprinted with permission. Citations have been omitted. Evangelical theology has not emerged in a contextual vacuum. As revealed above, a crisis within evangelicalism itself and by implication within evangelical theology stems from the inability or […]