Theology that Works
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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,...
Discount Admission to MTF Common Good Conference
Made to Flourish, an affiliate partner of the Oikonomia Network, is offering our newsletter readers a 20% discount to attend its annual Common Good Conference on November 12, 2020. This virtual, four-hour event will bring eleven entrepreneurs, pastors and business...
Classic EWP Talk: “Vocation? Whatever!” Some Helpful History
Pandemic-adapted classrooms are a struggle. Our library of Economic Wisdom Project Talks provides invaluable tools for the new pedagogical reality. Banish “Zoom fatigue” in your digital or blended class! Cultivating real learning in chunks of 20 minutes or less isn’t...
Karam Forum: Rising to the Challenge with Hope, Vision and Wisdom
Note: Karam Forum isn’t the only digital opportunity for ON collaboration! Here’s a quick reminder of an opportunity we shared last month: Register today to join Scott Cormode, author of The Innovative Church, and Michaela O’Donnell Long for a...
Flourishing and Justice as “Subduing” the Earth
Note: 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...
Living Faithfully in a World of Difference
Note: Adapted from the authors’ new book, Uncommon Ground: Living Faithfully in a World of Difference. This book’s central question is how Christians can engage with those around us, while both respecting people whose beliefs differ from our own and maintaining our...
Classic EWP Talk: Pastoral Leadership for Flourishing Communities
We’re all struggling with pandemic-adapted classrooms. An invaluable tool to help you adapt your classes for the new pedagogical reality is our library of Economic Wisdom Project Talks. To avoid losing students to “Zoom fatigue” in your digital or blended class, a key...