Intersections at The Seattle School
Intersections features essays, dialogues, critical engagement, and art from faculty, staff, alumni, students, and other thought leaders. Grounded in the hope of fostering faithful dialogue, we are guided by a commitment to understanding narrative, wrestling with intersections, resisting reactivity, and fostering radical hospitality. With that in mind, we seek to feature work from a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives. Therefore the opinions expressed on the Intersections blog are those of the authors and do not purport to reflect an official statement regarding the views or opinions of The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology. If you would like to offer feedback, respond to a piece published here, or offer your own submission, you can email us at submissions@theseattleschool.edu.
7th Annual Stanley Grenz Lecture Series Featuring Dr. Chelle Stearns
For the first time in the seven-year history of the Stanley Grenz Lecture series, we were privileged to host one of our own professors, Dr. Chelle Stearns, as keynote speaker. The Series is offered in honor of former Professor Stanley Grenz, a prolific Christian scholar with a pastoral heart and deep intellectual presence. Faculty, students, […]
Listening with Your Body: The Importance of Deep Listening
We all have a depth to us that is not simply our own. We each come from a time and place that is other than where we are right now. And yet, life requires us to live in a now that seems to beckon to a self that is required to be conscious of who […]
Why Community Rhythms Are Important at The Seattle School
We can feel it in our bones that the fall has come. Not only have we been back in classes for weeks now, but the colors around us have deepened as the deciduous trees have begun their sacred ritual of release. The chill has returned to the air, as has the rain, days of blustery […]
Board of Trustees Announces Presidential Appointment of Dr. J. Derek McNeil
After robust discourse and prayerful discernment, the Board of Trustees has unanimously voted to appoint Dr. J. Derek McNeil as President of The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology. Dr. McNeil was appointed as Provost in 2018 and stepped into the role of Acting President in February 2019. “Dr. McNeil brings a rich background in […]
A Different Lens: Understanding Our Stories through Fantasy and Fiction
An Introduction by Dr. Kj Swanson: Every other year, The Seattle School offers the course SFD (Spiritual Formation & Direction) 523 Spirituality & the Arts and with each offering, the instructor has focused on a particular form of art as a way to explore spiritual practices and how the arts can inform and sustain spiritual […]
Lit Magazine: A Selection of Poems
“I love it when students take poetry and art and it almost begins to dance because they connect it to ideas that are happening in the classroom. Those are magical moments for me […] We’re doing all of this through transforming relationships. It’s more than just a mission statement—it’s the place where imagination happens. This […]
The Spirituality of Enchantment: A Life that Flourishes
An Introduction by Dr. Kj Swanson: Every other year, The Seattle School offers the course SFD (Spiritual Formation & Direction) 523 Spirituality & the Arts and with each offering, the instructor has focused on a particular form of art as a way to explore spiritual practices and how the arts can inform and sustain spiritual […]
Streams of Resilience: People
In the months prior to the launch of Resilient Leaders Project, the team (at that point Dr. Derek McNeil, Andrea Sielaff, and myself) spent time sifting through research on resilience, trying to come up with a cohesive way to understand what leads to thriving, especially after suffering. Eventually, we expanded and consolidated categories into three […]
Symposia 2019: Flourish
On October 5, 2019, The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology hosted our fifth annual Symposia, featuring presentations by twelve alumni and Dr. Chelle Stearns as keynote speaker. The spirit of dialogue and collaboration behind Symposia is rooted in this basic premise: We all have much to offer, and we all have much to learn. […]
Finding Enchantment and Magic in the Everyday
An Introduction from Dr. Kj Swanson: Every other year the Seattle School offers the course SFD (Spiritual Formation & Direction) 523 Spirituality & the Arts and with each offering, the instructor has focused on a particular form of art as a way to explore spiritual practices and how the arts can inform and sustain spiritual […]
10 Women Theologians You Should Be Reading
“What are you reading?” It’s a question often heard within the walls of many learning institutions, yet the answer that follows is typically in regards to a textbook or a predetermined selection of pages for a class. Today, we’d like to help you expand your reading list—whether you’re a student, life-long learner, or someone who […]
Where Are You Called to Serve?
As we welcomed a new cohort of students to our community, Dr. J. Derek McNeil called upon these new and returning learners to deeply consider the question: How can you come to graduate school and serve? Watch Dr. J. Derek McNeil’s address to our incoming cohort: “text.soul.culture is a vehicle. The purpose clause is to […]