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Refresh and Reconnect at Our 2024 Faculty Retreat!
Refresh and reconnect at the 2024 Karam Fellowship Faculty Retreat! We’ll be gathering at Asbury Theological Seminary in gorgeous Wilmore, Ky., and also spending time at the nearby Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill. Get away and rest from the tyranny of the urgent,...
On the Use and Abuse of the Bible in American Politics
Note: From The Ballot and the Bible (Baker 2023). Reprinted by permission of the publisher. Citations have been omitted. In “A Model of Christian Charity,” John Winthrop appropriates the language Jesus used to describe the new covenant. He never explicitly claims...
Christian Business Schools and Capitalism
One claim made in Kenman Wong’s essay on the profound missional challenges facing Christian business schools (reprinted last month in Faith & Flourishing) seemed so provocative and important that we reached out to a variety of scholars for their thoughts. Here is...
Classic EWP Talks: Jesus as an Economic Teacher
Jesus is, among so much else, an economic teacher. How can we receive his instruction today as authoritative for our economic thought and practice? Several of our most popular Economic Wisdom Project Talks explore the possibilities: Joshua Jipp of Trinity Evangelical...
Family and Theological Education in NYC
Note: From On Becoming Wise Together (Eerdmans 2023). Reprinted by permission of the publisher. Citations have been omitted. Formal theological education was only possible with extended family supporting our part-time studies as babysitters, conversation partners and...
Member Spotlight: Present Together, Online
Note: Our Member Spotlight series continues with Randy Walls. A transcript of the interview appears below. If you are a Karam Fellowship member and would like to be in the spotlight, drop us a line! https://youtu.be/gRv-k60vLnc Greg Hello again everybody. I’m Greg...
Our Faculty Retreat Is Back! Join Us at Asbury Theological Seminary on January 3-5
Boy do we have an announcement to make this month! Those of you who have been in our community long enough will remember that for some time, we held an annual faculty retreat - always located in a warm place and held in the first week of January - designed to give you...
The Invention of Improvement and the Price of Progress
Note: From The Evangelical Imagination (Baker 2023). Reprinted by permission of the publisher. Citations have been omitted. “New and Improved!” You can’t walk down the aisle of the grocery store without the words “new and improved!” jumping out at you from one...
Transformative Business Education: Is It Possible?
Faith & Flourishing has published its latest Essay: "Is It Even Possible for Business Schools to Train People to Transform Business?" by Kenman Wong. Written by one of the most prominent and respected voices in Christian business education, and originally...
The Arts: Abundance in a Reductionist World
Note: From Abundantly More: The Theological Promise of the Arts in a Reductionist World (Baker 2023). Reprinted by permission of the publisher. Citations have been omitted. Image: Tim Noble and Sue Webster, Wild Mood Swings, 2009-10. Two wooden stepladders, discarded...