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Karam Forum: Meeting Ministries in Atlanta
Karam Forum is an incarnational experience. God made us as embodied creatures, not brains in jars! As Karam Forum comes to Atlanta this Jan. 3-4, we'll be encountering a variety of people and organizations - some you've probably heard of, and some you probably haven't...
EWP Talks: Pastoral Leadership and History – Embodying the Mission
The Oikonomia Network’s Economic Wisdom Project offers students the opportunity to learn from leading theological scholars on topics ranging from Theology to Culture, from Ethics to New Testament studies. This month, we are highlighting EWP Talks on Pastoral...
Church for Monday
Note: Excerpt from Church for Monday by Sveltana Papazov (Living Parables Books, 2019) www.ChurchForMonday.com. Available everywhere print books are sold. A Model for the Future As we know, the week has 168 hours. People spend on average...
Seminary Spotlight: Covenant Theological Seminary
Rooted in the Reformed and Kuyperian traditions, Covenant Theological Seminary offers students both specific courses on work and a curriculum-wide approach to engagement with the labor of humanity and of believers in particular. Covenant Seminary students initially...
Justice and Vocation: Rachael and Jacob Denhollander at Karam Forum 2020
Justice advocates Rachael and Jacob Denhollander stand out as representative of the best leadership that God’s people have to offer today as the church wrestles with the complex challenges of justice. Justice is not only integral to the gospel, but integral to...
Seed Co. Hires ON to Consider AI, Culture and Translation
We have an exciting new development at the Oikonomia Network (ON). We’ve created a new service called Karam Labs. Seed Company, a prominent Bible translation organization, has hired the ON to gather scholars for a collaborative consultation event. Drawing on the...
Racial Wealth Gaps and What Your Church Can Do about It
Reprinted from Made to Flourish. A few years ago in a powerful op-ed in the New York Times, Nicholas Kristof wrote that “the United States now has a greater wealth gap by race than South Africa did during apartheid. Whites in America on average own...
EWP Talks: Culture and Formation – Faithful & Fruitful in a Dark World
Our collections of EWP Talks on Culture and Spiritual Formation will help your students understand how we are formed by, and have the chance to form, our social and spiritual environments. We are made by God as cultural creatures, extensively formed by the social...
Seminary Spotlight: Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
These are exciting times at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the merger between Gordon Divinity School and Conwell School of Theology. The merger was the brainchild of Billy Graham, John Harold Ockenga and J. Howard Pew. The...
Seminary Spotlight: Sioux Falls Seminary
Toward the end of the last Seminary Spotlight report from Sioux Falls Seminary, we shifted our focus a little. Having reported the deep integration of themes attendant on work and the economy in our curricular and co-curricular opportunities, and having shared the...