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.
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 […]
Relational Perspectives Series with Dr. Usha Tummala-Narra
“In the US, race takes a particular form. Indians in the US and more broadly South Asians have, like every other cultural group that is raised upon migration, a framework for understanding race. More often than not these frameworks are less visible and more likely to be dismissed by notions of immigrants as people who […]
Convocation: An Invitation to a Greater Love
Dan Allender shared these convicting words during Convocation on September 14, 2019, at St. Mark’s Cathedral. Read his full address as he calls upon each of us to be open, humble, and to come into a better love. For us all this is a phenomenal beginning, and a gracious gift of God to have you […]
Entering Our 22nd Year
“Oh sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth! Sing to the Lord, bless his name; tell of his salvation from day to day.” Psalm 96:1-2 As we entered into our 22nd year as a school Dr. Derek McNeil, Acting President posed the question: What does it look like […]
Times of Endings and Times of Beginnings
You spent this past week settling into new homes, purchasing last minute books, figuring out your commute, or perhaps even driving to Seattle in a moving truck. Know that we are conscious of the days to come for you and the energy, vulnerability, and depth you have already brought to this process of arriving. There […]
Announcing New Common Curriculum at The Seattle School
In an increasingly fragmented and complex culture, we at The Seattle School are renewed in our mission to train people to be competent in the study of text.soul.culture in order to serve God and neighbor through transforming relationships. Since our founding we have been compelled by multi-modal, practice-oriented learning and service in the world. In […]