Theology that Works
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Karam Forum 2020: Justice, Discipleship, Fruitfulness, Kingdom
The schedule is packed at Karam Forum 2020, so don’t put off registering to attend this catalytic and connecting event! We’ll be meeting January 3-4 in Atlanta to refresh our community of collaboration, and hear from leading voices including Rich Mouw,...
Sign Up for Curricular Workshops at ETS/SBL/AAR
The Oikonomia Network is offering theological faculty in our partner schools a unique opportunity this fall. We’re grateful that you’re walking alongside us in making the changes theological education needs for the coming generation to connect our curricula to...
A Church-for-Monday Event at Half Off
Made to Flourish will host its Common Good Conference October 5, in host sites around the country. We want to offer seminary students a 50% discount to attend the conference. Please let your students know about this opportunity to learn outside the...
EWP Talks: Ethics – What Is Real Flourishing?
Our collection of EWP Talks on Ethics will help your students explore the way we strive to live as followers of Jesus, and what we hope for – and will work for – when it comes to economic systems and practices. Perhaps the toughest part, these talks will help convey...
Friends of the ON: What They’re Up To
Over the years, the ON community has been blessed by interactions and collaborations with all kinds of great scholars and leaders from a wide variety of fields. Their lives and their fields are as busy and ever-changing as ours! Here are a few updates on what some...
Seminary Spotlight: Western Seminary
One among many reasons for seminaries to take vocation seriously is the change we are seeing in students’ motivation for seeking theological education. Students here at Western Seminary are pursuing their education with a variety of different end goals. Our efforts to...
Karam Forum: How Theology Changes Life
At Karam Forum we gather as practitioners and friends of theological education to talk about how theology changes life. At our 2019 meeting, one focus was systematic theology as a discipline. Engaging TED-style talks explored how our daily vocations are shaped by the...
Sign Up for Curricular Workshops at ETS/SBL/AAR
The Oikonomia Network is offering theological faculty in our partner schools a unique opportunity this fall. We’re grateful that you’re walking alongside us in making the changes theological education needs for the coming generation to connect our curricula to the...
Souls on Sticks and Short Talk Clips
Three years of Karam Forum have produced not just catalytic curricular tools and profound lectures, but also short talks that pack big ideas into just a few minutes. It isn't just Nathan Hitchcock's Corn Lover Story! Each session at Karam Forum begins with a session...
Why Bother with the Local Church?
Adapted from Becoming Whole: Why the Opposite of Poverty Isn’t the American Dream by Brian Fikkert and Kelly M. Kapic (Chicago: Moody Publishers 2019); originally published at Chalmers.org. If you’ve read or heard much from me over the years, you know that my...