Forster on the Mission of Higher Education at Karam Forum

Karam Forum 2017 closed with Oikonomia Network Director Greg Forster’s inspiring call to renew the vision of Christian higher education serving God’s people and God’s world. Forster emphasized that the church’s crisis of discipleship and the world’s public crises have...

Faith, Work and Eschatology

by John W. Taylor, professor of New Testament and director of Graduate Studies, Gateway Seminary

Note: This article spotlights the work of John Taylor, an individual faculty partner in the Oikonomia Network. One of the persistent tensions in Christian theology and practice has been between under-realized and over-realized eschatology, which could also be called...

New EWP Talk: All Good Work: Creation and Parenthood

by Oikonomia Network

Note: This article describes one of the ON’s Economic Wisdom Project Talks, designed to be used as class assignments. At the inaugural Karam Forum, Mark Roberts of Fuller Seminary spoke about the need to rethink what truly counts as good work. Resisting...

Sample Assignments across the Curriculum

by Jennifer Woodruff Tait is managing editor of Christian History, content editor for The High Calling at the Theology of Work Project, an Episcopal priest, an affiliate professor at Asbury Theological Seminary, and the author of The Poisoned Chalice.

Here are more sample assignments to help inspire fresh thinking about how to incorporate a concern for vocation, flourishing and economic justice across the curriculum. Biblical Studies Have students do an exegetical word study on one of the following words in New...

Economic Value: What Should We Want?

by Jordan Ballor, senior research fellow and director of publishing, Acton Institute

Editor’s Note: This article is an excerpt from Jordan Ballor’s chapter in the Oikonomia Network’s new minibook, Economic Wisdom for Churches: A Primer on Stewardship, Poverty and Flourishing. In it, Ballor discusses the importance of families and churches...

Economics of Love at ETS, Human Flourishing at AAR

by Oikonomia Network

Heads up if you’re attending ETS in Providence or AAR in Boston this November! The ON will be serving up stimulating panels at both meetings. The Economics of Love at ETS Tom Nelson will discuss his transformative new book, The Economics of Neighborly Love, at the...

Spotlight: Grand Rapids Theological Seminary

by Darrell Yoder, director of Talking Points and the Pirsig Fellowship

At Grand Rapids Theological Seminary, we are nearing completion of two multi-year projects related to the work of the Oikonomia Network. These two projects have focused on helping students and local pastors develop a biblical theology of work and to pursue faithful...

Spotlight: The Spirituality of Jesus as a Calling, Part II

by Paul Anderson, professor of biblical and Quaker studies, George Fox University

Note: This article spotlights the work of Paul Anderson, an individual faculty partner in the Oikonomia Network. Part I appeared in last month’s newsletter. An inclusive quest for Jesus that embraces his calling in all of life seeks to recover a sense of Jesus and his...

New EWP Talk: Striving in His Image is Flourishing

by Oikonomia Network

Note: This article describes one of the ON’s Economic Wisdom Project Talks, designed to be used as class assignments. At the inaugural Karam Forum, Bruce Fields of Trinity International University shared the story of Reverend Leslie – a man who worked...

Flourishing: What is Good for Us?

by Amy Sherman, Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Faith in Communities

Editor's Note: This article is an excerpt from Amy Sherman's chapter in the Oikonomia Network's new minibook, Economic Wisdom for Churches: A Primer on Stewardship, Poverty and Flourishing. In it, Sherman discusses the relational dimensions of flourishing...

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