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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. Theology/Doctrine Have students take a statement from either the Nicene or Apostles’ Creed and link...
Road Reflections: Stories of Vocational Navigation
Note: The author, a longtime leader in the faith and work movement, has embarked on a road trip over the next several months to have conversations with ordinary people about their work in these challenging times. This is the first in a series of articles on his...
Koinonia: Communicating the Goods of Creation
Note: This article spotlights the work of Brent Waters, who has been named an individual faculty partner in the Oikonomia Network. It is an excerpt from his recent landmark book, Just Capitalism: A Christian Ethic of Economic Globalization. The thesis of this chapter...
Spotlight: Western Seminary
At Western Seminary we are invested in training Christians to be catalysts for whole-life discipleship and fruitful engagement in culture and communities in a variety of ways. At the core of our mission is our graduate-level seminary curriculum. We have been working...
Vanhoozer on “Learning Christ” at Karam Forum
Karam Forum 2017 opened with a rich, challenging lecture from Kevin Vanhoozer on “Learning Christ.” Vanhoozer argued that over the last two centuries, theological education has been structured according to implicitly secular understandings of academic knowledge....
Economics of Love at ETS, Human Flourishing at AAR
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...
Amy Sherman on Karam Forum Classroom Applications
Amy Sherman, senior fellow at the Sagamore Institute and director of the Center on Faith in Communities, gave a two-session presentation on “fresh pedagogies” for theological education at the inaugural Karam Forum. Most theological education follows the “sage on the...
Teaching Old Testament and New Testament – Women at Work
Stories from, about and for women at work have not often been told as prominently as those of men in Christian contexts and discussions about work and economic life. Where to Start? One important starting point for Christians must be to take a fresh look at what the...
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
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...