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Justice and Discipleship at Karam Forum – Live in Ft. Worth or via Zoom, Nov. 18-19
How can we prepare future leaders to see justice as essential to discipleship, and discipleship as essential to justice? That will be our focus at Karam Forum this November 18-19. Chris Brooks, Jennifer Powell McNutt, Gavin Ortlund, David French, Michael...
Surprised by Satisfaction: Faculty Find a Calling in Dual Roles
“I spent twenty-plus years in what I call Teach, Write and Otherwise Leave Me Alone Mode. And it was wonderful, and I would have been perfectly happy to continue in that mode for the duration,” said Scott Rae of the Talbot School of Theology in our April 15 webinar...
Preparing Students for the Gig Economy
Maybe they will thank me someday. I sound like a mother talking about her children, but I’m a professor talking about my students. Last semester, some of them complained about the unit I assigned them on working in the gig economy. They said it was irrelevant to their...
Success Is Creating Value, Not Making Money
The vision of the Economic Wisdom Project is summarized in twelve “elements” that provide starting points for thoughtful, biblically informed understanding of contemporary opportunities and challenges. For a handy guide to the twelve elements, download this one-page...
Theological Education in Diaspora
Note: Excerpt from Attempt Great Things for God (Eerdmans 2020) as part of the book series Theological Education between the Times. Reprinted by permission of the publisher. Citations have been omitted. Our era is one of rapid and widespread dispersion of people....
Seminary Spotlight: Covenant Theological Seminary
Covenant Seminary helps its students explore their calling in a variety of ways. Skills are important to equipping our students for their callings. But character is more important. For a clear justification of this approach, consider what what happens when character...
Join Karam Fellowship Today as We Launch the Second Decade of Our Community
Folks, there are days when the Oikonomia Network has news to share, and then there days when it really has news to share. Today is the latter! First things first: Karam Forum 2021 registration is officially open – register today! Chris Brooks, Jennifer Powell McNutt,...
“For Not Only a Surviving Future, But a Flourishing Future”
“We are all undergoing major reengineering and transformation at our institutions, to try to navigate for not only a surviving future, but a flourishing future,” said Barry Corey, president of Biola University, in our March 25 webinar on the future of theological...
A Modest Proposal for Evangelical Theology’s Reckoning with Race
Note: Excerpt from Reckoning with Race and Performing the Good News: In Search of a Better Evangelical Theology (Brill 2020). Reprinted with permission. Citations have been omitted. Evangelical theology has not emerged in a contextual vacuum. As revealed above, a...
Imagining Christian Teaching
Note: Excerpt from Transforming Fire (Eerdmans 2021) as part of the book series Theological Education between the Times. Reprinted by permission of the publisher. Citations have been omitted. I am hardly the first person to notice tensions between Christian traditions...