Note: This article is the latest in a series highlighting resources for theological educators and churches. “Faith & Co: Business on Purpose” is a video resource created by Seattle Pacific University (SPU). Amy Sherman has called it “the best resource I’ve seen for Christian business leaders.” We hope theological and business educators alike will find it a helpful tool as well. “Faith […]
Seminary Spotlight: Assemblies of God Theological Seminary
The activities and conversations at Assemblies of God Theological Seminary (AGTS) on whole-life discipleship, work and the economy continue to blossom in a variety of ways as the faculty more deeply engages its teaching and learning efforts. In a collaborative initiative with academic program chairs, the dean’s office recently established a learning outcomes template for […]
Seminary Spotlight: Seattle Pacific Seminary
Note: Tom Parks recently graduated from Seattle Pacific Seminary and is now teaching a course at Seattle Pacific University’s business school. Nearing the end of my coursework at Seattle Pacific Seminary, I took Christian Values, Ethics & the Marketplace, an interdisciplinary elective “across the street” at Seattle Pacific University’s School of Business, Government, and Economics. […]
David Miller on Seminaries and the Faith and Work Movement
The faith and work movement will be critically important for the church in the coming generation, and seminaries have an important role to play as the movement faces new challenges and new opportunities. That was the message of Princeton University’s David Miller, author of the definitive history of the movement (God at Work), at Karam […]
Formation Curricular Workshops: Insights
This the latest in a series of articles sharing insights from a joint curricular development initiative of the ON, the Theology of Work Project and three ON schools (Asbury, Assemblies of God and Western). Conversations with seminary faculty about formation courses emphasised three different dimensions. Spiritual Formation It is only in the last two or […]
Four Proposed Standards for Faith and Work in Local Churches
What does it mean for the church to “equip the saints for works of service” in the new and changing world that is emerging globally? One of the toughest challenges in the faith and work movement is that this question is so overwhelming and can be answered in so many different ways. It’s hard to […]
The Christian Economics of Baking Potatoes
Note: This is an excerpt adapted from Dan Doriani’s new book, Work: Its Purpose, Dignity, and Transformation. After years of teaching about work and interviewing hundreds of people, I sought to supplement the excellent recent publications on work. For that reason, one chapter reviews a neglected topic, the history of thought on work – with […]
Seminary Spotlight: Bethel Seminary
Since 2012, Bethel Seminary has been engaging the conversation about whole-life discipleship through our Work with Purpose initiative. Seven years later, that conversation and the impact of the initiative continue within the seminary and beyond. Through partnerships with local churches and our network of alumni, we provide opportunities for learning beyond the seminary community. We […]
Spotlight: The Gospel of Creation and Shalom
Note: This excerpt spotlights the work of Mark DeVine, an individual faculty partner in the Oikonomia Network. It is taken from his new book, Shalom Yesterday, Today and Forever. Without warning and with unexpected power, the first article of the oldest Christian creed arrested my attention. These opening lines seemed to illumine not subsequent articles of the […]
New EWP Talk: Vocation Is Integral to the Gospel
Evangelism versus justice. Great Commission versus Great Commandment. Kingdom work versus ordinary work. Proclamation versus discipleship. Gathered versus scattered. Missionaries versus deacons. Justification versus sanctification. Faith versus love. A lot of people are sick and tired of setting the things of God against each other. Some have been seeking this change for a long time. […]
New EWP Talk: A Sacred Church
What if we’re getting the whole sacred/secular problem backward? The faith and work movement is concerned that Christians have divided a sacred church from a secular world, cutting off the world from the mission of God – and cutting off most of our own lives from the path of discipleship in the process. But what […]
Business Modules in Curricular Workshops
This the latest in a series of articles sharing insights from a joint curricular development initiative of the ON, the Theology of Work Project and three ON schools (Asbury, Assemblies of God and Western). In our curricular workshops, we only had one conversation with a business school faculty member. However, business issues also arose in […]
AU Fellowships Available
Note: This article is the latest in a series highlighting resources for theological educators. In June 2019, the Acton Institute will welcome 50 Oikonomia fellows to Grand Rapids, Mi. to attend Acton University. Being awarded an Oikonomia fellowship is a unique opportunity for a cohort of seminary professors to network during our four-day conference promoting sound anthropology and economic understanding in seminaries […]
Seminary Spotlight: Wesley Seminary
Wesley Seminary at Indiana Wesleyan University has had an integrative mission from its founding in 2009. It is against this backdrop that we view our partnership with, and participation in, the Oikonomia Network. There are strong affinities between the way Wesley Seminary fulfills its mission to “prepare Christian leaders to engage in missional ministry locally […]
Seminary Spotlight: Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
One of the many things we have discussed among our faculty and with our students over the past five years is how work and economics represent a major arena in our lives, through which we have opportunities to love and serve our neighbors. It is a reminder that we exist in a network of relationships […]