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Divine Purpose, Property, and Natural Law
Note: From The Earth Is the Lord’s (Eerdmans, 2025). Reprinted by permission of the publisher. Citations have been omitted. Whose Is This? Why can anyone own anything at all? After all, the world and all that is in it precede humans. At some point, no one owned...
Member Spotlight: Theological Technology
Denise Lee Yohn, co-founder, Bay Area Center for Faith, Work & Tech Note: Our Member Spotlight series continues with Denise Lee Yohn. 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...
Rethinking Leadership in the Church
Note: From A Theology of Authority (Baker, 2025). Reprinted by permission of the publisher. Citations have been omitted. The first task of this book is to clarify what we mean by authority. If a pastor does have authority, is this different from a parent’s authority...
Drawing Deep From the Well of Theological Reflection
Note: From At This Time: Dialogues in Theological Education, ed. Corwin Malcolm Davis & Ted A. Smith (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2026). Reprinted by permission of the publisher. Citations have been omitted. The following passage from the Gospel of John had a...
Flourishing and (in? of?) the University
Is there still value in a college education? Are universities and their students truly flourishing? At a moment when higher education faces profound economic, cultural, and moral questions, these are no longer abstract concerns but urgent ones. This year we will offer...
EWP Talks on Theology: Knowledge that Gives Life
Our collection of EWP Talks on Theology will help your students draw more extensively on the theological knowledge tradition to help people wrestle with today’s opportunities and difficulties. At the core of our work in the Oikonomia Network is drawing...
The Economy of Grace and the Generosity of God
Note: From Exploring the Financial Parables of Jesus (Baker, 2025). Reprinted by permission of the publisher. Citations have been omitted. At the very outset of this book we drew attention to the parable of the hidden treasure in Matthew 13:44. Using just a handful of...
Member Spotlight: Biblical Financial Wisdom
Luke Bolton, executive for strategic partnerships, Kingdom Advisors Note: Our Member Spotlight series continues with Luke Bolton. 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!...
Christian Life: Overcoming False Dichotomies
Note: From Christian Life (Zondervan, 2026). Reprinted by permission of the publisher. Citations have been omitted. One reason I have become convinced that we need a theology of Christian life in our day is that too often we are offered forms of spirituality that...
Building Community: Our January 2026 Faculty Retreat
We were richly blessed by one another's presence and the work of the Holy Spirit at our January 2026 faculty retreat. We reflected together on how schools can cultivate community, how we can be people who flourish within our limits in the context of community, and how...