by ALISTAIR MACKENZIE, TEACHING FELLOW AT LAIDLAW COLLEGE, NEW ZEALAND, AND MEMBER OF THE STEERING COMMITTEE OF THE THEOLOGY OF WORK PROJECT | Sep 7, 2017 | Newsletter Articles
Stories from, about and for women at work have not often been told as prominently as those of men in Christian contexts and discussions about work and economic life. Where to Start? One important starting point for Christians must be to take a fresh look at what the...
by Oikonomia Network | Sep 7, 2017 | Newsletter Articles
Karam Forum 2017 closed with Oikonomia Network Director Greg Forster’s inspiring call to renew the vision of Christian higher education serving God’s people and God’s world. Forster emphasized that the church’s crisis of discipleship and the world’s public crises have...
by John W. Taylor, professor of New Testament and director of Graduate Studies, Gateway Seminary | Sep 7, 2017 | Newsletter Articles
Note: This article spotlights the work of John Taylor, an individual faculty partner in the Oikonomia Network. One of the persistent tensions in Christian theology and practice has been between under-realized and over-realized eschatology, which could also be called...
by Oikonomia Network | Aug 5, 2017 | Newsletter Articles
Note: This article describes one of the ON’s Economic Wisdom Project Talks, designed to be used as class assignments. At the inaugural Karam Forum, Mark Roberts of Fuller Seminary spoke about the need to rethink what truly counts as good work. Resisting...
by Jennifer Woodruff Tait is managing editor of Christian History, content editor for The High Calling at the Theology of Work Project, an Episcopal priest, an affiliate professor at Asbury Theological Seminary, and the author of The Poisoned Chalice. | Aug 5, 2017 | Newsletter Articles
Here are more sample assignments to help inspire fresh thinking about how to incorporate a concern for vocation, flourishing and economic justice across the curriculum. Biblical Studies Have students do an exegetical word study on one of the following words in New...
