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Pentecost and Our Public Intellectual Challenge
Note: From Public Intellectuals and the Common Good (InterVaristy 2022). Reprinted by permission of the publisher. Citations have been omitted. The author will be giving our keynote address at Karam Forum in Denver on Nov. 17-18. Register now to join us, live or by...
Member Spotlight: The Pulse of Formation
Note: Our Member Spotlight series continues with Meryl Herr. A transcript of the interview appears below. Meryl will be part of Karam Forum 2022 on Nov. 17-18 in Denver; get your tickets today! If you are a Karam Fellowship member and would like to be in the...
Karam Forum 2022: How Theological Educators Can “Go the Distance”
In these crazy days in theological education, with so many of us stuck in a state of vocational exhaustion, how can we seek the Lord to get ourselves reset and re-equipped to go the distance? Join us at Karam Forum 2022 this November 17-18! Michaela O'Donnell and...
Interrogating Innovation: Cruciformity v. Cultural Scripts
We don’t shy away from challenging theological inquiry here in the Oikonomia Network. That’s why we were intrigued when our longtime community leader Dean Blevins came to us about a new book: The Church after Innovation by Andy Root of Luther Seminary. That title may...
Endless Innovation, or Missional Integrity?
Note: From The Church after Innovation (Baker 2022). Reprinted by permission of the publisher. Citations have been omitted. I’d never used the phrase before. It seemed like an idiom covered in the dust of the 1940s. It was an expression that might have found its way...
Virtue Ethics Triumphs, Virtuously
This week, Faith & Flourishing published its latest Essay: "An Emerging Consensus on Virtue Ethics in Christian Living and Sanctification," by Klaus Issler. Drawing on a long career of experience crossing the boundary between ethics and biblical scholarship,...
Responsible to Serve the Poor Well
The Economic Wisdom Project is best known for our Economic Wisdom Project Talks, which are short, accessible, engaging and rich presentations suitable for use in classrooms and group discussions. But the EWP also features print resources, including our vision paper...
Member Spotlight: Getting the Lead Out
Note: Our Member Spotlight series continues with Denise Daniels. A transcript of the interview appears below. Daniels will be part of Karam Forum 2022 on Nov. 17-18 in Denver; get your tickets today! If you are a Karam Fellowship member and would like to be in the...
Karam Forum 2022: “Ladies and Gentlemen, I’m Not Gonna Kid You”
Join us at Karam Forum 2022 this November 17-18! Helen Young Hayes will share her revolutionary experience leaving the heights of Wall Street to start a business in Denver that hires former convicts and others on the margins who need a path into the workforce. Take...
The Good Samaritan as Community Model
Note: From The Good Samaritan (Baker 2022). Reprinted by permission of the publisher. Citations have been omitted. Many contemporary Christians privilege an interpretation of the Luke 10 passage that equates the good Samaritan with Jesus. Sitting in a Barnes &...