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Designing Worship Services That Speak to Daily Work
Note: From Leading Worship for Workers (Baker, 2026). Reprinted by permission of the publisher. Citations have been omitted. If all of life is going to be worship, the sanctuary is the place where we learn how. – James K. A. Smith, “Sanctification for Ordinary...
Augustine’s Critique and the Credibility of Christianity after Christendom
Note: From The Gospel After Christendom (Zondervan, 2025). Reprinted by permission of the publisher. Citations have been omitted. Stephen Presley documents how the early church developed for apologetic purposes “the full set of rhetorical devices” they inherited from...
Equipping Students to Flourish with Classic Texts
In this timely essay, Williams reflects on the speed of technological innovation and the baggage this trajectory has created for students entering universities today. She contends that the digital revolution has not simply reshaped campus life but has inherently...
EWP Talks on OT: God’s Firm Foundation
Our collection of EWP Talks on Old Testament will help your students explore how this often-challenging material – the large majority of our Bibles! – provides vital insight for how we live our lives today. As we strive for economic wisdom, we need to know,...
Divine Purpose, Property, and Natural Law
Note: From The Earth Is the Lord’s (Eerdmans, 2025). Reprinted by permission of the publisher. Citations have been omitted. Whose Is This? Why can anyone own anything at all? After all, the world and all that is in it precede humans. At some point, no one owned...
Member Spotlight: Theological Technology
Denise Lee Yohn, co-founder, Bay Area Center for Faith, Work & Tech Note: Our Member Spotlight series continues with Denise Lee Yohn. A transcript of the interview appears below. If you are a Karam Fellowship member and would like to be in the spotlight, drop us a...
Rethinking Leadership in the Church
Note: From A Theology of Authority (Baker, 2025). Reprinted by permission of the publisher. Citations have been omitted. The first task of this book is to clarify what we mean by authority. If a pastor does have authority, is this different from a parent’s authority...
Drawing Deep From the Well of Theological Reflection
Note: From At This Time: Dialogues in Theological Education, ed. Corwin Malcolm Davis & Ted A. Smith (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2026). Reprinted by permission of the publisher. Citations have been omitted. The following passage from the Gospel of John had a...
Flourishing and (in? of?) the University
Is there still value in a college education? Are universities and their students truly flourishing? At a moment when higher education faces profound economic, cultural, and moral questions, these are no longer abstract concerns but urgent ones. This year we will offer...
EWP Talks on Theology: Knowledge that Gives Life
Our collection of EWP Talks on Theology will help your students draw more extensively on the theological knowledge tradition to help people wrestle with today’s opportunities and difficulties. At the core of our work in the Oikonomia Network is drawing...