Where were you this time last year? How did you end up here? This week, we are launching a new series in which first-year students reflect on the path that brought them to The Seattle School. Check back every Thursday for a new story. “If you don’t like the direction you are going, change it.” […]
In a sea of many who believe themselves the few with “ears to hear,” do we really have the chutzpah to respond to our calling? One day, still too young to walk, my parents carried me through a parking lot. Nearby, a stranger remotely locked his car. This man “beeped” his car with his keychain […]
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 […]
This fall, the Office of Students and Alumni will launch Alumni Portfolio Groups after a successful pilot group this past year. Serving 2014 graduates, Portfolio Groups respond to the growing desire for community, guidance, and resources among graduating students as they transition from being students at The Seattle School to provocateurs of change in the […]
After eight years of service and leadership as Professor of Biblical Studies, Dr. Jo-Ann Badley is ending her time at The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology to become the Dean of Theology at Ambrose University in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Ambrose University enrolls an average of 800 students, with 14 […]
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 […]
“I can do this.” That phrase has been a common refrain for me throughout my experience at The Seattle School. Some days the words have entered my mind or left my lips with confidence, believing that I am, in fact, able to pastor and care well for people. Other days, those words come out with […]