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Vision and Wisdom at Karam Forum: Get Advance Papers Now
Mark your calendar today to join us for Karam Forum 2021 on Tuesday, January 5! Our theme is “Rising to the Challenge with Hope, Vision and Wisdom.” We’re looking forward to hearing from Mark Labberton, John Nunes, Darrell Bock and many more on how our schools can not...
Publishing Opportunity at Karam Forum: A New Journal
In our line of work, who isn’t looking for more publishing opportunities? One of the themes we’ve discussed for years in the Oikonomia Network is the need to cultivate more theological scholarship on whole-life discipleship, fruitful work, economic wisdom and human...
Nations in the Metanarrative of Redemption
The new book Human Flourishing: Economic Wisdom for a Fruitful Christian Vision of the Good Life publishes papers delivered at colloquia that were held by the Oikonomia Network in 2019. This innovative, cross-disciplinary scholarly collaboration is now...
Association of Christian Economists Resources
For almost 40 years, the Association of Christian Economists (ACE) has been gathering scholars in the economics discipline for conversation and fellowship. Over that time, the association has hosted a generation of conversation about faithful Christian economic life....
Seminary Spotlight: Fuller Theological Seminary
It might not surprise you to hear that at Fuller Theological Seminary and its De Pree Center for Leadership, this year has been marked by change and uncertainty. After all, who hasn’t felt the turbulent effects of change in 2020? In the midst of this, we remain...
Seminary Spotlight: Grand Rapids Theological Seminary
Note: Appropriately for the new pandemic reality, this update comes to you via video. A transcript, with links to the resources discussed in the video, is provided below. https://youtu.be/BE43c6aiqy0 Hey, my name is Darrel Yoder. Greetings from Grand Rapids...
Karam Forum: New Speakers, New Sessions
We’ve added exciting new speakers and sessions to Karam Forum 2021, a half-day digital event – and more! – coming on Tuesday, January 5. The event will run 10:00-2:00 central time (11-3 eastern, 8-12 Pacific). Mark your calendar today for this inspiring, equipping and...
ETS Sessions: Human Flourishing, Theology of Work
At this month’s meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, two innovative sessions will focus on core Oikonomia Network themes: summoning theology to work for human flourishing, and asking challenging questions about how systematics can inform and improve our...
Capitalism, Socialism and Karl Barth’s Pragmatism
The new book Human Flourishing: Economic Wisdom for a Fruitful Christian Vision of the Good Life publishes papers delivered at colloquia that were held by the Oikonomia Network in 2019. This innovative, cross-disciplinary scholarly collaboration is now available in an...
Sacrificial Response in Our Work and Liturgy
Note: This is an excerpt from the authors’ new book, Work and Worship: Reconnecting Our Labor and Liturgy. Footnotes have been omitted. That we can give at all rests on what we have been given, on the sense of receiving our very selves as gift. —Rowan Williams,...