When I try to speak about this last year, my third in The Seattle School’s MDiv program, it starts out like a joke: “A Lutheran, an Episcopalian, a Presbyterian, a Quaker, a Mennonite, a Church of Christ…er, a Reformed Protestant, a Baptist, a Disciple of Christ, and a Free Churcher walk into a bar.” Except […]
Art brings me to the very edge of myself. Creating art tips me over completely. This poem was born while at the very end of my artistic crisis. I had gone through a dry spell for over a year, no paint, no pen to paper, no movement, nothing. After attending The Seattle School’s Artist Residency, […]
This spring, I was invited to be the Associate Professor of Theology & Culture here at The Seattle School. I am excited and humbled to be called faculty. This new position comes after years of transition and disorientation. Five years ago, I left the place I loved: New Horizons Ministries. I had served marginalized young […]
When I knew I was leaving The Seattle School, it occurred to me that I felt like a book that had been on inter-library loan. Perhaps somehow the kingdom of God was like a big inter-connected library system. The metaphor captured the strong sense I have had from the early days of my tenure at […]
In 2010 my husband and I were in Moshi, Tanzania working under a non-profit doing sustainable development projects. While there, we began dreaming and brainstorming about the work we wanted to be part of in the coffee industry. Situated at the base of Mount Kilimanjaro, we were quite literally surrounded by coffee farms, but our […]
I grew up on the shores of the beautiful Puget Sound. Sunday mornings after church were spent sitting beside the water, watching it lap up against the breaks near the Edmonds-Kingston ferry, watching seagulls and boats go by, and watching waves crash. As a kid, I was not troubled with the origin of waves or […]
The years. The minutes and seconds and moments, both key and not so much so, all seem to happen so quickly; so instantly; so irretrievably wonderfully fast, don’t they? Our selves are born (thrown, I would say is more accurate) into relationship with this paradox known as life and helped to survive it; and if […]
Every year, a graduate from each degree program is selected by their peers and faculty to speak at Commencement around a particular theme. This year, the speakers chose the theme “Crossings.” Below is the speech shared by David Jaeger, an MDiv graduate. Missouri turned into Kansas. Kansas turned into Colorado. Colorado into Wyoming, into Utah into Idaho […]
Every year, a graduate from each degree program is selected by their peers and faculty to speak at Commencement around a particular theme. This year, the speakers chose the theme “Crossings.” Below is the speech shared by Jade Brown, an MACP graduate. I know a psychologist, Dr. Terrence Roberts. He was a member of the Little […]
Every year, a graduate from each degree program is selected by their peers and faculty to speak at Commencement around a particular theme. This year, the speakers chose the theme “Crossings.” Below is the speech shared by Ryan Kuja, an MATC graduate. The ancient seafaring people of Polynesia paddled small outrigger canoes thousands of miles on […]
Every year, a graduate is selected by their peers and faculty to share a song at Commencement in honor of the graduating class. Below is the song shared at the 2014 Commencement ceremony by Megan Peters, an MATC graduate. This song carried me through the entire length of this program—the ups and downs, the depth of the […]
Meghan Cappon, The Seattle School Bookstore Manager and wife of recent MACP graduate Peter Cappon, shares the poem she wrote on behalf of family and friends of The Seattle School graduates for the 2014 Commencement ceremony. Watch the clip from 2014 Commencement These grads have done it (hooray!) but certainly not alone. So I’m […]