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Spiritual Capital
What’s So Spiritual about Capital? Bruce Baker, Assistant Professor of Business Ethics, Seattle Pacific University Spiritual capital is becoming a hot topic. It helps explain the appeal of new ideas like Bill Gates’ “creative capitalism” and John Mackey’s “conscious...
ON Point
By Greg Forster As the school year begins, our mission to equip pastors to cultivate fruitful work and economic wisdom enters its next chapter. This summer brought continued growth and new opportunities to the Oikonomia Network (ON), and we’re looking forward to what...
Seminary Spotlight
Susan Heeren Reese, Associate Professor of Spiritual Formation, Sioux Falls Seminary Nathan Hitchcock, Assistant Professor of Church History and Theology, Sioux Falls Seminary Jessica Berg, Developer of Social Entrepreneur Studies, Sioux Falls Seminary Sioux Falls...
More Highlights
The Oikonomia Network at Trinity By Donald Guthrie Trinity Evangelical Divinity School is now embarking on its second academic year as an Oikonomia Network school. From the beginning of Trinity’s ON partnership, it became apparent that no single faculty member,...
The Lord’s Work
The Lord’s Work, the Lord’s Way By Michael Wittmer, professor of Systematic Theology, Grand Rapids Theological Seminary Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs, received much criticism when, in 2009, he told the Sunday Times of London that he was a banker “doing God’s...
Pastors & Economics
Pastors, Seminary Students, and Economics Scott B. Rae, professor of Philosophy of Religion and Ethics, Talbot School of Theology, Biola University Why do pastors need to know all that much about economics? My friend and writing partner, Austin Hill, tells the story...
EWP Vision Paper
EWP Vision Paper Improved One of the central educational resources in the Oikonomia Network is the vision paper for the Economic Wisdom Project (EWP), released this past May. This fall, seven seminaries in our network will directly use the content of the EWP in one...
Acton Univ. Moments
The conference can start - Roger Cotton of AGTS and Vincent Bacote of Wheaton have arrived. Stephen Grabill welcomes approximately one million Kern Fellows It's always an honor to welcome the Kern Fellows Amy Sherman, caught in the act of creating shalom o KFF's Fred...
ON Testimonials
It is a privilege, professionally challenging, and intellectually and spiritually stimulating, to teach at Acton University. My efforts include the fourth Core Course, Biblical Foundations of Freedom, and select elective courses – this year my elective course was Why...
KPN Testimonial
For the first time, the Kern Fellows Program at Acton University this year included pastors engaged with the Kern Pastors Network (KPN). The KPN is a new initiative of The Kern Family Foundation that reaches out to pastors who received seminary scholarships from the...