In spring 2018, the Practicum (now Listening Lab) team hosted a meeting for students who identify as underrepresented on campus (Persons of Color, LGBTQIA+, Sage, Conservative Theology, etc.) to invite conversation around the question: “What has practicum been like for you?” What followed was a series of often painful accounts of struggles that went beyond […]
Throughout the last several weeks, the faculty of The Seattle School have engaged in ongoing conversation, reflection, and education–individually and collectively–as we considered how to respond to the systematic oppression of and violence toward Black human beings in our country. For me personally, faces of students keep coming to mind–from the UW, Cascadia College, and […]
We say their names, lingering as we light a candle for each of them on the vigil altar: Ahmaud Arbery. Breonna Taylor. Tony McDade. Maurice Gordon. Rayshard Brooks. George Floyd. Our altar grows all-too-crowded, even if we say names from just the years since Black Lives Matter was founded. All fellow people, Americans, neighbors, friends, […]
Theology and the Artistic Impulse is a Theology & Culture elective offered every other winter that uses art as a starting place for theological inquiry. The course is designed to help students expand their understanding and application of how we derive theological meaning from all five of our senses, not just the written and spoken […]
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 […]
The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology has decided to move forward to deliver classes online through December 2020 amid the uncertainty of COVID-19. “In this season, we are all grieving our ability to be together, and we are anxious to return to campus. This is a season of much uncertainty, and even when we […]
Manuel Ellis. George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. Alton Sterling. Troy Robinson. Sandra Bland.Tamir Rice. Michael Brown. Eric Garner. James Chaney. Mack Charles Parker. Emmett Till. Mary Turner and unborn child. The “60 million and more,” as Toni Morrison puts it. While our bodies and souls ache with the recent abuses of power, we also recognize them […]
The Seattle School community gathers annually along with friends and families of the graduating MDiv and MATC students for the Integrative Project Symposium. This year, in the midst of ongoing restrictions to public gatherings, students pre-recorded their presentations and participated in our first virtual Integrative Project Symposium on June 17. The Integrative Project serves as […]
It is difficult for me to separate the deep hurt from watching George Floyd die from that of the generations of hurts mingled together of black and brown bodies who have died for no good reason. I want to be clear: there is no less pain when black and brown bodies harm each other, or […]
The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology announces that it will undertake the stewardship of Fuller Seminary’s Christ & Cascadia online journal. Christ & Cascadia will be housed in Resilient Leaders Project, a grant-funded program within the graduate school, under the leadership of Kate Rae Davis, Director, and Forrest Inslee, Editor. “At The Seattle School, […]
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- […]
“The hearts of the people cry out to the Lord. Oh wall of the Daughter of Zion, let your tears flow like a river day and night….pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord.” ~Lamentations 2:18-19 These words of the prophet Jeremiah situate themselves in a devastating part of Judah’s history—the […]