
Issue

Trustee Interview
Eric Law from Duke, Linda Mack from United, and Virginia Snoddy from Gordon-Conwell explain why the new chapels were needed and how they got built.

President-trustee dialogue
President Richard J. Mouw and trustee William K. Brehm say that their new building project is a result of a new commitment to educating students as worship leaders.

Three new seminary chapels — at Gordon-Conwell’s Charlotte campus, Duke Divinity School, and United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities — demonstrate what kinds of students are being formed in each school.
President Christa R. Klein proposes that music for ministry should be a topic for boards.

In Trust Inc.’s vision, its products and services, its constituents, and its finances — all in a nutshell.

Contributing editor Melinda R. Heppe suggests that bad taste isn’t always so bad.

In Trust leadership transitions. Catholic seminary visitations begin. Football tackle is also seminarian. Also, new leaders in theological education.

In Trust’s outgoing board chair, Robert E. Cooley, offers a framework for understanding the seminary president’s role in governance.

United Theological Seminary
As much as architect Richard M. Roediger likes buildings, he says it’s the school’s mission that matters at United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio.
Technology columnist Mark Sullivan answers the question of the hour: What is a blog, anyway?

Professor Ellen Davis interprets art recently installed at Duke Divinity School and suggests that unsatisfied thirst is part of the reality of faith.

New Orleans seminaries pull together in time of crisis
Two deluged schools plan to return to New Orleans as soon as they can.

author: Richard P. Chait, William P. Ryan, and Barbara E.Taylor publisher: Wiley, 2005
In Governance as Leadership, Richard Chait, William Ryan, and Barbara Taylor take two familiar concepts (governance and leadership), reframe them, and relate them in a manner that forces readers to think deeply and untraditionally about both.

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