Michael Cooper-White

Cooper-White is president of the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg (Pa).

• A Christmas meditation
  Once again God pitches a tent in our midst
• Keeping a good Lent
  Piety, practices and pilgrimage
• Godly governance
  It recognizes that the church's power belongs to Christ
• How's it going?
  Take time to assess your ministry
• Stewarding legal matters
  Interplay between church and state is confusing
• Stewardship: Just ask!
  'We have not because we ask not.' It's just that simple.
• Ministry teams
  Are they just a fad ... or fundamental?
• Creative Christian education
  It all happens in the Upper Room
• Congregational history
  Connect memory with promise
• Communication
  The gospel is, after all, a message
• Be prepared
  'Chance favors only the prepared mind' Louis Pasteur
• Finances
  Taking care of business is a sacred tust
• Conflict
  When it calls your name, answer
• Hospitality
  How welcoming are you ... really?
• Transformed by loneliness
  It is to your advantage that I go away....
• 'Be among us'
  My advice to the next presiding bishop