Theology that Works
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Creation and Creativity
Note: This is an excerpt from the author’s book Creation and New Creation. Notes have been omitted. Whatever the precise meaning of the “image” language might be, it is clear that humanity plays a critical role in the furthering of God’s creation project: while the...
Sample Assignments Across the Curriculum
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. Church History Ask students to respond to the list of unacceptable jobs for Christians in...
Seminary Spotlight: Indiana Wesleyan University
Indiana Wesleyan University (IWU) desires to promote conversations and curricular integration to move students and faculty into a more complete understanding and practice of what it means to steward one’s whole life for God’s glory. In previous ON newsletter articles,...
Join Us for the Faith at Work Summit
The 2018 Faith at Work Summit, held in Chicago at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare on October 11th-13th, is now open for registration! The early bird pricing for registration is now available at $179 per ticket, so be sure to purchase soon! The ON has been a leading co-host...
Join Us for the Faith at Work Summit
The 2018 Faith at Work Summit, held in Chicago at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare on October 11th-13th, is now open for registration! The early bird pricing for registration is now available at $179 per ticket, so be sure to purchase soon! The ON has been a leading co-host...
New EWP Talk: Andy Crouch on Isaiah’s Posterity Gospel
We’re very excited to release our latest EWP Talk: Andy Crouch’s brief but powerful address at Karam Forum 2018. Drawing on the imagery of Isaiah 5, Crouch spoke about the challenge of separating real flourishing from transitory prosperity in the midst of economic...
Brian Fikkert: The Church and Economics
Getting richer is not making us happier. At the 2018 ON faculty retreat, Brian Fikkert of the Chalmers Center for Economic Development spoke to why that is, why it represents a radical challenge to the narratives that dominate the discipline of economics, and how the...
Teaching Historical Theology: Perspectives on Calling
Calling language has been pervasive in theology since at least Martin Luther. Sometimes we speak as if God only calls people away from ordinary secular work into church mission or ordained ministry. But does God also call some people to stay, and serve God in their...
Seminary Spotlight: Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Southern Seminary’s Commonweal Project on Faith, Work and Human Flourishing recently completed our fourth year of initiatives designed to engage and equip faculty, students, pastors and ultimately churches with a biblical understanding of work and economic wisdom. It...
Person and Property in the Pentateuch
Note: This article spotlights the work of David Baker, who has been named an individual faculty partner in the Oikonomia Network. It is adapted from his article “Are Business People the Bad Guys? Person and Property in the Pentateuch,” Southwestern Journal of Theology...