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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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
New EWP Talk: The Portable Trinity
The Trinity isn’t about counting to three, it’s about the God who sends us – including the “sending” we can remember and rest upon in our daily work. That’s the message of Fred Sanders’ talk at Karam Forum 2019, now available as an Economic Wisdom Project Talk for use...
Vocation & TOW 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). Previous articles in this series have dealt with...
Miroslav Volf on the Crisis of Theology
At a joint meeting of the 2019 ON faculty retreat and three ON-sponsored scholarly colloquia, Miroslav Volf gave a provocative talk on “The Crisis of Theology.” Speaking after dinner on January 2, just before Karam Forum, Volf laid out what he saw as the nature of the...
Moses, Modern Finance, and Payday Lending
When friends learned I was studying lending in the Old Testament, some asked: What about “payday loans”? Let’s see how the Old Testament’s teaching about loan ethics applies to this controversial practice. As we have seen, one component of Old Testament...