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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...
Karam Forum: Economic Wisdom in a New World
We can’t stop adding speakers to the schedule at Karam Forum 2020! Register to attend this gathering time of equipping and collaboration. Karam Forum will meet on January 3-4 in Atlanta to reconnect with one another, and hear from leading voices including...
New Resources from the Chalmers Center
Here at the Chalmers Center at Covenant College we’ve long been crafting tools to help churches and ministries discover better ways to love and serve people living in poverty, and through our partnership with the Oikonomia Network, I’m excited to tell you about a few...
Workplace as Holy Ground: From Moses’ Wilderness to Modern Business
Note: Excerpt from Working in the Presence of God, copyright 2019 by Hendrickson Publishers, Peabody, Ma. Used by permission. All rights reserved. As we read Scripture, we see repeatedly that God uses space and place to speak, to transform people, and to further his...
EWP Talks: Theology and Bible – Loving God, Doing His Word
Our collections of EWP Talks on Theology, New Testament and Old Testament will help your students draw more extensively on the Bible and the theological knowledge tradition to help people wrestle with today's opportunities and difficulties. At the core of...