By Greg Forster As the school year begins, our mission to equip pastors to cultivate fruitful work and economic wisdom enters its next chapter. This summer brought continued growth and new opportunities to the Oikonomia Network (ON), and we’re looking forward to what the Lord has in store for us this fall. We’re growing in […]
Archives for September 2013
Seminary Spotlight
Susan Heeren Reese, Associate Professor of Spiritual Formation, Sioux Falls Seminary Nathan Hitchcock, Assistant Professor of Church History and Theology, Sioux Falls Seminary Jessica Berg, Developer of Social Entrepreneur Studies, Sioux Falls Seminary Sioux Falls Seminary received a grant last year to explore the integration of faith, work, and economics. The initiative has been a […]
More Highlights
The Oikonomia Network at Trinity By Donald Guthrie Trinity Evangelical Divinity School is now embarking on its second academic year as an Oikonomia Network school. From the beginning of Trinity’s ON partnership, it became apparent that no single faculty member, or even one department, could successfully relate ON goals to the university’s mission. Therefore, institutional leaders […]
The Lord’s Work
The Lord’s Work, the Lord’s Way By Michael Wittmer, professor of Systematic Theology, Grand Rapids Theological Seminary Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs, received much criticism when, in 2009, he told the Sunday Times of London that he was a banker “doing God’s work.” Of course, he was right. Bankers are doing the Lord’s work, […]
EWP Vision Paper
EWP Vision Paper Improved One of the central educational resources in the Oikonomia Network is the vision paper for the Economic Wisdom Project (EWP), released this past May. This fall, seven seminaries in our network will directly use the content of the EWP in one form or another with students. The rest are finding their […]
Pastors & Economics
Pastors, Seminary Students, and Economics Scott B. Rae, professor of Philosophy of Religion and Ethics, Talbot School of Theology, Biola University Why do pastors need to know all that much about economics? My friend and writing partner, Austin Hill, tells the story of a conference he attended as a graduate student where the facilitator posed […]