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Spotlight: Trinity International University
The Center for Transformational Churches (CTC) at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School has had a busy year. In May of 2016, Donald Guthrie, professor of educational ministries and Jeanette L. Hsieh Chair of Educational Leadership, was named executive director of the...
Spotlight: Dallas Theological Seminary
Oikonomia Network activities continue at Dallas Theological Seminary. Our approach has been to wrap these themes and values around our curriculum. Changes in curriculum are difficult and take a long time, so we build energy and equip students on the faith and work...
New EWP Talk: Fruitfulness Matters
Note: This article describes one of the ON’s Economic Wisdom Project Talks, designed to be used as class assignments. At the first Karam Forum in March, Made to Flourish President Tom Nelson spoke on the integral relationship between faithfulness and fruitfulness....
Teaching Hermeneutics & Homiletics: Is Work Meaningful or Futile?
Interpreting and Preaching Ecclesiastes 2 & 3: Two Different Ways to Assign this Topic Both of these assignments assume that the biblical text of these chapters will be read and examined. Also that the TOW Commentary on Ecclesiastes will be...
Helping People Live Like God Owns It All
Note: This article is the latest in a series highlighting resources for classrooms and local churches. For information on God Owns It All, including a free copy of Session 1, check out the website of the Ron Blue Institute, located at ON partner school Indiana...
ON Names Individual Faculty Affiliate Partners
The Oikonomia Network has created a new “affiliate partner” status for individual faculty who share our mission and are at schools that are not ON partner schools. Our inaugural affiliate partners are: Paul Anderson, George Fox University Dean Blevins, Nazarene...
Spotlight: Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
An Atlanta pastor, South Carolina educator, PhD student and North Carolina mother would typically have little in common. But there is one thing they share: they, like thousands of other believers, have been challenged to integrate their work, culture, faith and...
Spotlight: Biola University
The Talbot School of Theology at Biola University has had success connecting our education to work, the economy and flourishing through a series of intentional but organic approaches. We’ve created a unit focused on vocation in the spiritual formation track that’s...
Announcing Karam Forum 2018
On March 2-3, 140 theological educators and Christian academics braved the Chicago winter to collaborate, network, share and contribute at the Oikonomia Network’s inaugural Karam Forum, held at Trinity International University. The whole-life discipleship conversation...
See Our Partners at Work!
At Karam Forum 2017, the Oikonomia Network debuted two short but powerful new videos about the work of our schools and our network. Check them out and share them with peers to help them know what ON is all about! In “Our Partners at Work,” leaders from across the many...