by Ken Magnuson, professor of Christian ethics | Mar 11, 2019 | Newsletter Articles
One of the many things we have discussed among our faculty and with our students over the past five years is how work and economics represent a major arena in our lives, through which we have opportunities to love and serve our neighbors. It is a reminder that we...
by Oikonomia Network | Feb 20, 2019 | Newsletter Articles
The Trinity isn’t about counting to three, it’s about the God who sends us – including the “sending” we can remember and rest upon in our daily work. That’s the message of Fred Sanders’ talk at Karam Forum 2019, now available as an Economic Wisdom Project Talk for use...
by ALISTAIR MACKENZIE, TEACHING FELLOW, LAIDLAW COLLEGE | Feb 20, 2019 | Newsletter Articles
This the latest in a series of articles sharing insights from a joint curricular development initiative of the ON, the Theology of Work Project and three ON schools (Asbury, Assemblies of God and Western). Previous articles in this series have dealt with...
by Oikonomia Network | Feb 20, 2019 | Newsletter Articles
At a joint meeting of the 2019 ON faculty retreat and three ON-sponsored scholarly colloquia, Miroslav Volf gave a provocative talk on “The Crisis of Theology.” Speaking after dinner on January 2, just before Karam Forum, Volf laid out what he saw as the nature of the...
by Klaus Issler, professor of educational studies and theology, Biola University | Feb 20, 2019 | Newsletter Articles
When friends learned I was studying lending in the Old Testament, some asked: What about “payday loans”? Let’s see how the Old Testament’s teaching about loan ethics applies to this controversial practice. As we have seen, one component of Old Testament...
