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Adam Copeland

Adam Copeland

Director of the Center for Stewardship Leaders

Luther Seminary

Adam Copeland teaches at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he directs the Center for Stewardship Leaders. An ordained pastor in the Presbyterian Church (USA), he is editor of Beyond the Offering Plate: A Holistic Approach to Stewardship (2017) and Kissing in the Chapel, Praying in the Frat House: Wrestling with Faith and College (2014). Before coming to Luther Seminary in 2015, Adam served as a church planter, professor at Concordia College (Moorhead, Minnesota), and rural pastor.

Published Articles

Article

Vocation for Emerging Adulthood: Within and Beyond College

Adam Copeland

No. 47 · Spring 2018

Copeland uses scenes from Master of None, David Brooks’ columns, Meg Jay’s The Defining Decade, and the stories of two ELCA college graduates to argue that emerging adulthood has fundamentally changed — and that Lutheran colleges should call out cultural lies about work, reframe vocation as meaning-making, and help graduates take small, wise steps into their twenties.

Adam Copeland

Published Articles

Vocation for Emerging Adulthood: Within and Beyond College