Join us at Karam Forum 2022 this November 17-18! Denise Daniels will share what she’s learned about the growing world of Christian entrepreneurship, including an in-depth encounter with Helen Young Hayes’ revolutionary business in Denver. Amos Yong, Michaela O’Donnell, Fernando Tamara and more will also lead our collaboration, with a focus on Thriving in a Changing World.
We’re looking forward to gathering with you to reaffirm, reimagine and refresh our vocations as theological educators – collaborating to seek new life for ourselves, our students, our schools and our communities.
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We’ll start at 7:00pm on Thursday, Nov. 17, and finish up with lunch on Friday, Nov. 18. So if you’re attending either ETS or AAR/SBL, Karam Forum is a super-easy addition to your trip.
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One of the most important ways Christians can create genuine economic flourishing and transform the way a culture treats people is through entrepreneurship. As Element 9 of the Economic Wisdom Project’s Twelve Elements of Economic Wisdom puts it: “The most effective way to turn around poverty, economic distress, and injustice is by expanding opportunity for people to develop and deploy their God-given productive potential in communities of exchange, especially through entrepreneurship.”
That’s why theological schools are increasingly attentive to entrepreneurship. As we discussed in a 2021 ON webinar, the importance of learning about entrepreneurship from a theological perspective is being recognized across the theological disciplines and is an important preparation for ministry in our changing world.
Karam Forum continues to carry this conversation forward. At our 2020 meeting in Atlanta, we were blessed to hear from Charisse Jones, Joe Gorra and Dean Blevins on the theological and practical importance of this topic:
At Karam Forum 2022, we are excited to unfold a new dimension of this important conversation! Denise Daniels of Wheaton College will help us explore what’s emerging now in the world of Christian entrepreneurship, as God’s people find new ways of bringing life to the world. She has been at the forefront of research into Christian entrepreneurship, and into a better empirical understanding of business issues Christians are particularly concerned with, for many years.
Many members of our ON community will remember her striking presentation at the 2016 Faith at Work Summit on gender-related challenges in the modern workplace:
Our session on Christian entrepreneurship will include an exciting conversation with Denver entrepreneur Helen Young Hayes, former powerhouse executive at global investment fund Janus and now founder of ActivateWork, which helps marginalized workers succeed. (See Faith & Co.’s gripping profile of Hayes and ActivateWork, “Second Chances.”)
We also have plenty more in store, including:
Amos Yong will give our keynote address, on how our schools can find new opportunities amid the challenges of digitalization, globalization and pluralization by relying on the Holy Spirit. Discussion will follow with Fernando Tamara, Philip Thompson and more.
Michaela O’Donnell and Meryl Herr of Fuller Theological Seminary will lead a collaboration focused on our own formation as educators facing these challenges. It’s not just our schools that face unprecedented challenges – it’s us! How can we find life-giving renewal in our tumultuous vocational circumstances?
Kara Martin of Alphacrucis College continues to lead our annual Global Session, in which colleagues from around the world join us via Zoom. We always discover rich insights by hearing about what the Holy Spirit is doing among our global peers in theological education. This year we’ll feature colleagues from Africa and South America.
And Jeff Hoffmeyer of the Denver Institute for Faith and Work will introduce us to local ministries embodying the mission of God in Denver. Wherever Karam Forum goes, we’re always honored to yield the stage to the people who are building the future of Christian community and mission on the ground in those places.
Register today to join us LIVE in Denver, OR by Zoom from wherever you are!
