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.
Interdisciplinary Learning at The Seattle School: Embracing the “&”
With contributions from Dr. Jennifer Fernandez. The “&” in our name is essential to who we are – we train therapists in our counseling psychology program, but through a distinctively theological lens. We offer programs in Divinity and Culture & Theology, but with attention to the psychological. Our distinctiveness is, in part, a result of […]
Association of Theological Schools to Visit The Seattle School in April
The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology is hosting a comprehensive evaluation visit for reaffirmation of accreditation by the ATS Commission on Accrediting on April 6-9, 2020. The purpose of this visit is to verify that the school meets all applicable Commission Standards of Accreditation. Comments regarding how well the school meets those standards and/or […]
Streams of Resilience: Practices
If you’ve been following Resilient Leaders Project for long, you’ve likely heard mention of the three streams of resilience: people, practice, and purpose. Each are a necessary component of resilience; no one is sufficient on its own. I always talk about ‘people’ first because it’s the most vital. Although people, practice, and purpose are important, […]
The Seattle School Achieves Regional Accreditation
The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology has been granted regional accreditation by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU). Appointment of regional accreditation recognizes the impact, missional alignment, and credibility of The Seattle School and its programs as a whole. This designation adds to the school’s accreditation with the Association of Theological Schools […]
A Response to the Oppressive, ‘Standardized’ Image of Beauty
Growing up, water was home. My body was free when I was submerged in it. Whenever I jumped, dove, danced, or maneuvered in exaggerated ways, I did not get hurt nor faced the physical consequences as if I were on land. And when my body had much energy and emotion that needed to be released, […]
It’s About More than Eating and Not Eating: The Need for an Interdisciplinary Approach to Eating Disorders
This past fall at The Seattle School, I had the privilege of teaching two disciplines close to my heart—Critical Social Theory and Interdisciplinary Methods. As part of their work in the course, students were asked to ground their learning by choosing a concrete, contemporary issue that was important to them and to which they could […]
Hope
Hope is building a house that she imagines will be a home. She didn’t plan to build, there was the hope that maybe she could inherit the family home, the one that’s been passed down through generations. But the thing is…the home is older and wearier and rotting out. There are deep cracks in the […]
ICYMI: 2019 at The Seattle School
This past year marked many changes within The Seattle School, and we are ever grateful for those who walked alongside us in 2019. Before jumping headlong into 2020, we spent some time remembering the past year, revisiting the many milestones we celebrated together as a community. In February, The Seattle School, The Allender Center, and […]
Embodying Jesus Christ in Our Relationships
Today marks the fourth and final Sunday in Advent—the season in the Church calendar where we wait, with great hope and anticipation, for the coming of Jesus to earth, both as fully God and fully human. To close our Advent series, President McNeil calls us to remember the importance of embodying Jesus Christ in our […]
A Very, Very Seattle School Christmas
‘Twas the week before Christmas and all through the school . . .” Our staff and faculty participated in the second annual Office Decorating Competition, decking the halls of the school in festive colors and twinkling lights. From a Seattle School spin on It’s a Charlie Brown Christmas to an interactive scavenger hunt, departments had […]
Mary’s Song Overcomes
Dear Mary, mother of Jesus, I don’t have a song this morning. No new news and nothing notable to think on beyond your song, Mary. The angel Gabriel visited you to announce a birth and I am sure you could have handled any announcement, but it wasn’t any announcement, and it would require you to […]
Welcoming Winter
There’s been a recent infusion of more showers, more gray, more chill into the weather. These herald Winter, in Seattle and in another academic year at the Seattle School. It’s a change in the climatic and emotional seasons provoking melancholy for many of us. Yet the perennial atmospheric dreariness – or the disruption and doom […]