Theology that Works
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Karam Forum 2022: Redeeming Our City’s Spaces
Karam Forum 2022 continued our tradition of hearing from people doing the work of bringing life to the world in the cities where we meet. In Denver, we were grateful to our friends at the Denver Institute for Faith and Work for providing a rich exploration of how two...
The One Place Where the Evangelical Mind Has Become Less Scandalous
Note: From the newly expanded edition of The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (Eerdmans, 2022). Reprinted by permission of the publisher. Citations have been omitted. If the “evangelical” designation implies little about intellectual standing, so too might contemporary...
Theological Schools and the Church Abuse Crisis
As shocking rates of abuse continue to be uncovered in our churches, it is time for theological schools to consider a systemic response. Faith & Flourishing asked scholars who have studied abuse in church contexts: It has become clear that abuse is happening in...
EWP Talks on Culture: The Context for Transformation
Our collection of EWP Talks on Culture will help your students understand the social structures that shape them as human beings, for good and for ill, and how we can act to strengthen what is right and challenge what is wrong in those structures. The gospel is not...
Augustine’s Apologetics for a Fragmented World
Note: From The Augustine Way: Retrieving a Vision for the Church’s Apologetic Witness (Baker 2023). Reprinted by permission of the publisher. Citations have been omitted. As the philosopher Charles Taylor explains, “No one acquires the languages needed for...
Member Spotlight: Faith in a Pluralistic World
Note: Our Member Spotlight series continues with Darrell Bock. A transcript of the interview appears below. If you are a Karam Fellowship member and would like to be in the spotlight, drop us a line!...
Karam Forum Global Session: African Educators’ Pioneering Work in Schools and Communities
What’s more impressive than a seminary that has an annual weeklong seminar on theology of work that gathers the president, administrators, faculty, staff and student leaders to talk about how we can glorify God in our work at the school? How about a project in the...
What Does the Doctrine of the Trinity Have to Do with Critical Theory?
Note: From Biblical Critical Theory (Zondervan 2022). Reprinted by permission of the publisher. Citations have been omitted. Thus far we have seen that God is personal, absolute, and relational. But just as there is no vanilla-flavored generic god, so also there is no...
A Truly Christian Politics, before Constantine
Our peer-reviewed journal, Faith & Flourishing, is pleased to publish its latest scholarly article. It argues that the core elements of natural law theology were present in Justin Martyr before the "Constantinian" marriage of church and state, exploring how these...
EWP Talks on History: God’s Mighty Works
Our collection of EWP Talks on History will help your students see that they are part of a much bigger story – the story of the mighty works of God done among us, his people, across the centuries since the coming of the Word and Spirit. From a 4th century witness...