Watch the video above or read the transcript below: Who Is Your Neighbor? A few weeks ago, at 7:48 in the evening, I received a text that caught me off guard: “Hi Derek, sorry to bother you, but I’m not feeling well. I’m sitting on your neighbor’s steps to the right. Would you walk me […]
The timeline doesn’t start with us, it began with people named Hudson, Webb, Wilson, Hutchins, Atchison, Allender, Lynk, and Grenz. And Peter, Paul, Priscilla, Lydia, and Mary. – Keith Anderson, President Emeritus, Convocation 2015 At The Seattle School, we celebrate story and honor narrative. And as we mark and celebrate our 25 years, we are […]
Brody Hed is a first-year MACP student from Minnesota whose passion for literature and story evolved into a love of helping others see the beauty of their own journey. This passion led him to pursue camp ministry, writing, student development, to now studying counseling psychology at The Seattle School. Advent. A season of looking forward […]
Hannah Martin (MACP ‘20) worked for Resilient Leaders Project during her tenure as a student of The Seattle School. Here, she reflects on the necessity of acknowledging pain and tending to our wounds in order to move forward into greater resilience. Laura Wade Shirley’s post on “Running as a Spiritual Practice” has been on my […]
I’m sitting in the valley as I write this, coffee steam billowing from my cup next to me, the mountains loom before me in their magnificent gentleness, my calves and feet ache. Yesterday I completed the through-hike of The Enchantments, an ~18 mile trek that careens upwards of 4800 feet through Asgaard Pass in the […]
Yesterday, after having spent a substantial part of the morning and afternoon in the kitchen, my 24-year-old son walked in. “Are you making a pie?” he asked. “Well, yeah,” I replied. As if, of course I would be making a pie. This would be the fourth pie I had baked in our less than 6- […]
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 […]
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 […]
Heather Abbott shares about her journey with stage 4 cancer and the relentless, hope-filled joy that she found even in the midst of great suffering.
Jenny Wade shares how her journey of learning to inhabit her body in a new, life-giving way informs her sense of vocation.
Cecelia Romero Likes writes about trying to spend less time on her phone while she’s with her daughter—and the contempt that grows loud in the new silence.
Judy Ko writes about how a recent wardrobe makeover reinforced her passion for helping people step more fully into their true selves.