The Oikonomiks podcast
The science of ministry, work, administration, and the summing up of everything
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 37 minutes
- Episodes
- 157
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2025
FWaMM! Ep. 9: Annihilation Vs. The Renewal Of All Things
This week we conclude this first class of the Faith, Work, and Marketplace Ministry DMin cohort
looking towards the renewal of the heavens and the earth, “even as through fire!”
Sat 09 Aug 2025
FWaMM! Ep. 8: Ephesians and the Summing Up Of All Things
The Epistle to the Ephesians contains a cosmic vision of redemption that is so expansive in scope, that it provides a new motivation and fire for work, summing up all things under Christ’s headship.
Fri 08 Aug 2025
FWaMM! Ep. 6: Good Carpentry and the Work of our Hands
What was Jesus’ ‘job’ and how does it influence our view of work today?
Wed 06 Aug 2025
FWaMM! Ep. 2: Spreadsheets, Gardening, & Work Before The Fall
Is work the result of sin, or could it be possible that work existed in a good form even before the Fall? What does 'good work' look like and how might we envision it today?
Sat 02 Aug 2025
FWaMM! Ep. 1: Introduction & Overview of our Doctoral Cohort
This week we begin the Faith, Work, and Marketplace Ministry DMin cohort with an introduction and overview of this course.
Fri 01 Aug 2025
SF506: Empathy, Imagination, and Risk as Spiritual Practices (Ep. 19)
Today we talk about the journey from stuckness and hitting the Wall, to empathy, imagination, and your next doable risk.
Sat 10 Feb 2024
SF506: Cheap Grace, Tiers of Value and Counting the Cost (Ep. 18)
Today we talk about value and its role in forming entrepreneurs with capacity, capability, and competency.
Fri 09 Feb 2024
SF506: The Experience of Being "Stuck", Entrepreneurialism, and the Critical Journey Stages (Ep. 17)
In your spiritual or vocational journey, have you hit a Wall? Are you finding yourself stuck? There is an entrepreneurial path forward.
Wed 07 Feb 2024
SF506: Work and the Preferential Option for the Poor (Ep. 16)
Is there a way to work that prioritizes the poor but also creates wealth?
Sun 04 Feb 2024
SF506: Homer Simpson, the Walking Dead, and the Economics of the Kingdom (Ep. 15)
I mean really, can the kingRICHdom? Hint: kenosis is the secret again!
Sat 03 Feb 2024
SF506: Recapitulation Theory, the Multiethnic Church, and Ender's Game (Ep. 14)
What is the scope of the Gospel's redemptive vision? How far does it go?
Wed 31 Jan 2024
SF506: Tim Keller, Leaf by Niggle, and "Truly Spiritual" Vocation (Ep. 13)
Work can be seen as pointless, futile, and painful. Christian theology presents us with an alternative vision.
Mon 29 Jan 2024
SF506: Jim Manney's "A Simple Life Changing Prayer" - PART 2 (Ep. 12)
Jim Manney teaches the Ignatian Prayer of Examen, a vital tool in vocational self-awareness. Without self-awareness and the ability to see God’s manifold graces to us, we are apt to fall into what Ig…
Sat 27 Jan 2024
SF506: Jim Manney's "A Simple Life Changing Prayer" - PART 1 (Ep. 11)
Jim Manney teaches the Ignatian Prayer of Examen, a vital tool in vocational self-awareness. Without self-awareness and the ability to discern our own desires we are liable to become not only unhealt…
Thu 25 Jan 2024
SF506: Eugene Peterson and the Unpredictable Plant (Ep. 10)
Ministry is the unpredictable plant. Therefore, the formation of the minister is just as important as the ministry itself. God is interested not only in Nineveh’s salvation, but Jonah’s as well. “Do …
Wed 24 Jan 2024
SF506: Eugene Peterson on Nineveh (Ep. 9)
There are reasons why Jonah avoided Nineveh. We can see those same reasons within ourselves if we look close enough. Acceptance is key. True ministry happens when we recognize and accept the Ninevehs…
Sun 21 Jan 2024
SF506: Eugene Peterson's Fish (Ep. 8)
The significance of Jonah's prayer is not that he prayed, but what he prayed. Find a deeper language as you build a Rule of Life for seminary.
Fri 19 Jan 2024
SF506: Eugene Peterson on Tarshish (Ep. 7)
Ministry is not about selecting a community, it is about accepting a community. It is not about emotional entanglement, but geographic and circumstantial entanglement. It accepts whoever is on the p…
Thu 18 Jan 2024
SF506: Bonhoeffer on Human Love vs. Spiritual Love (Ep. 6)
Bonhoeffer distinguishes between flawed “human love” and “spiritual love” which is the Ideal.
Tue 16 Jan 2024
SF506: Look at the Fish! (Ep. 5)
Lectio divina is the process of observation / empiricism inspired by listening to the Holy Spirit.
Mon 15 Jan 2024
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