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Is Finance for Flourishing? Or Is It All Just Math?
“What do you perceive to be the greatest threat to justice, or the common good, in our modern economy?” Scott Rae posed that super-simple and not-at-all-provocative question to the three speakers in our March 15 webinar on modern finance. Jason Myhre answered in part...
When God Made Eve, He Made the Economy
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...
Our Participation in Christ and “The L Word”
Note: From A Visible Witness (Fortress 2016). Reprinted by permission of the publisher. Citations have been omitted. This volume examines the contours of Latin American Protestant Christology in explicitly Trinitarian terms in order to highlight how the historical...
Amos: Prophet of God’s Heart for Justice
Content taken from Reading the Prophets as Christian Scripture by Eric J. Tully, ©2022. Used by permission of Baker Academic. Citations have been omitted. As we have seen in previous chapters, God’s covenant with Israel at Mount Sinai obligates the people to observe a...
“Wesley Did Not Distinguish between Personal and Social Ethics” – and Neither Do These Christians Serving in Finance Today!
In our February 22 webinar – titled “Complicated Wickedness”: Wesley and Systemic Injustice – historian Charlie Self summed up the way Wesley challenges us to rethink our assumptions: I think it’s important that we realize that Wesley won’t fit into a neat box of...
Faculty from Sri Lanka to Singapore: “How Has Your Christian Faith Made a Difference to Your Understanding of Work?”
“After every semester, I would take a retreat somewhere. I would review the entire semester and try to discern the presence of God in major meetings, in ordinary life events – and just ask him for direction as to how to move the college forward,” said Edwin Tay,...
So Help Us God: Karam Fellowship Faith & Mission
The flourishing of God’s world is central to the gospel of Jesus Christ, and vice versa. It’s time we had doctrinal statements that made this connection clear – and showed that this connection is not in tension with, but actually supports and is supported by, more...
Economics in the Bible: A Very Short Summary
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...
Making Christ Known in the Modern World
Note: From Christian History in Seven Sentences (IVP 2021). Reprinted by permission of the publisher. Citations have been omitted. The church is confronted today, as in no preceding generation, with a literally worldwide opportunity to make Christ known. John Mott,...
Only Human: Embracing Our Finitude
Note: From You’re Only Human (Brazos 2022). Reprinted by permission of the publisher. Citations have been omitted. A few years ago I had a podcast interview with a woman who had read my book A Little Book for New Theologians and wanted to talk about it. Part of what...