Justice advocates Rachael and Jacob Denhollander stand out as representative of the best leadership that God’s people have to offer today as the church wrestles with the complex challenges of justice. Justice is not only integral to the gospel, but integral to vocation. We’re pleased to have the Denhollanders – a lawyer and a systematic […]
Archives for November 2019
Seed Co. Hires ON to Consider AI, Culture and Translation
We have an exciting new development at the Oikonomia Network (ON). We’ve created a new service called Karam Labs. Seed Company, a prominent Bible translation organization, has hired the ON to gather scholars for a collaborative consultation event. Drawing on the wealth of theological wisdom stewarded in our schools, our scholars will work with Seed […]
Racial Wealth Gaps and What Your Church Can Do about It
Reprinted from Made to Flourish. A few years ago in a powerful op-ed in the New York Times, Nicholas Kristof wrote that “the United States now has a greater wealth gap by race than South Africa did during apartheid. Whites in America on average own almost 18 times as much as blacks; in South Africa in 1970, the ratio […]
EWP Talks: Culture and Formation – Faithful & Fruitful in a Dark World
Our collections of EWP Talks on Culture and Spiritual Formation will help your students understand how we are formed by, and have the chance to form, our social and spiritual environments. We are made by God as cultural creatures, extensively formed by the social structures within which we live. Faithfulness requires disciplined formation in a new […]
Seminary Spotlight: Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
These are exciting times at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the merger between Gordon Divinity School and Conwell School of Theology. The merger was the brainchild of Billy Graham, John Harold Ockenga and J. Howard Pew. The stated aim was to “establish within a strong evangelical framework, an independent, interdenominational seminary […]
Seminary Spotlight: Sioux Falls Seminary
Toward the end of the last Seminary Spotlight report from Sioux Falls Seminary, we shifted our focus a little. Having reported the deep integration of themes attendant on work and the economy in our curricular and co-curricular opportunities, and having shared the fruit being borne by our students in their varied contexts of service, we […]