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.
In Memoriam Donald Michael Hudson, Ph.D., Professor and Co-founder
It is with sadness we share the news that Donald Michael Hudson, Ph.D., one of the founders of The Seattle School, passed away on November 15th, 2022. As we remember Dr. Hudson, along with our sorrow, we also want to share our deep gratitude for his contributions to shaping and establishing the mission, vision, and […]
Center for Transforming Engagement: Year One Updates
Director Kate Davis spoke at the launch celebration in March 2022 The first year of the Center for Transforming Engagement has been an exciting process of developing responsive programs and resources. The work of the Center for Transforming Engagement is to equip adaptive leaders with tools from the social sciences to lead communities of faith, […]
The Other Journal Offers Multi-Tiered Subscription Access
After nineteen years of publishing quality, multidisciplinary content at the intersection of theology and culture, The Seattle School is excited to announce that The Other Journal is now offering multi-tiered subscription access. The journal will continue publishing two interdisciplinary issues per year, and it will be accessed and distributed in new and exciting ways. With […]
Thanksgiving Vespers: Rest, Renewal & Refreshment in Community
As a learning community, we follow rhythms through the year that help us serve God and neighbor. Together, we steward practices that have grown and developed throughout our history. Our seasonal events and rituals guide us to gather, remember, and celebrate. These collective rhythms shape us deeply, and have formed us as a community that […]
Art on our Walls: Tara Hubbard’s Collages
The Seattle School has reserved a portion of its public space on both the second and third floors to display and honor art created by students, staff, faculty, and alumni, as well as artists from the greater Seattle area. This fall, collages created by Tara Hubbard MATC ’22 are featured in the second-floor Commons area […]
The Seattle School Announces Inaugural Senior Scholar: Esther Lightcap Meek, PhD
The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology is excited to announce that philosopher, professor, and author Dr. Esther Meek will be serving as the inaugural Senior Scholar starting in 2022. As we celebrate twenty-five years as an interdisciplinary graduate school and seminary, this new position and opportunity highlights our theological scholarship. Senior Scholars at The […]
Meet the Writing Center Consultants
The Writing Center is a digital space that supports Seattle School students in their development as writers and is the primary resource for accessing writing resources, such as paper formatting guidelines and citation help for APA and Chicago Turabian Style. (You’ll be using both, whatever degree you do.) The Writing Center offers free one-on-one consultations […]
Best Practices for Online Learning
Third-year MACP student Susannah Brister describes the online learning best practices she developed through her time at The Seattle School. We’re hopeful these ideas might give you a head start on considering what your own best practices will be. Many of us have developed our own best practices for working, learning, and socializing online, and […]
Convocation: Celebrating Our 25th Year
In 2022, Convocation served as the sacred culmination of our Orientation, (Re)Orientation, Residency, and Community Week events. Alumni, faculty, staff, and returning students gathered to commit themselves to a new year together, formally welcoming new students into our learning community with liturgy, prayer, and song. Watch our community’s gathering at St. Mark’s Cathedral, and hear […]
The Quaking of America: A Book Release Event with Resmaa Menakem
On July 1st, 2022, President J. Derek McNeil welcomed Resmaa Menakem in Seattle on tour for his newest book, The Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating Our Nation’s Upheaval and Racial Reckoning. Author, therapist, and licensed clinical social worker, Resmaa Menakem specializes in the healing of racialized trauma and also advocates for Somatic […]
An Introduction to Assistant Instructors
We have an excellent team of 14 Assistant Instructors who are looking forward to supporting your learning here at The Seattle School both this year and beyond. The role of Assistant Instructor (AI) at The Seattle School is somewhat different than what you may have encountered as Teaching Assistants in other academic contexts. All of […]
Meet the Student Leadership Quad
At The Seattle School relationships are both the focus and the location of our learning and our formation. We seek to honor the fleshiness and the dynamic nature of our humanity, to listen for the wisdom of our bodies’ deep knowing, and the profound creativity that happens as we encounter one another and allow one […]