Intersections at The Seattle School
Meaning-Making at the Intersection of Sacred Texts and Online Learning
We asked Dr. Celene Lillie and Dr. Misty Anne Winzenried, Associate Dean and Teaching & Learning to talk with us about The Seattle School’s first large-scale, fully online course: A New Testament Survey and how the students embraced creativity in their final visual projects. Keep reading to watch a project from the course, where students […]
Moving from Passivity to Responsibility to Participate in Justice
When I returned from a week away around the Memorial Day holiday and learned of George Floyd’s murder at the hands of police officers, I sat in stunned silence and then I wept. There seems to be no end, no respite from the violence and oppression, no collective awareness, repentance, or change. I was preparing […]
Stewarding My Own Whiteness in the Work for Justice
Over the past months, we’ve watched the pandemic unfold, contouring to the same or worse racial disparities that are usually found in our society and health systems. The same barriers to access exist now in Black and Native communities as existed last fall. The same internalized biases exist in exhausted healthcare works as existed before. […]
Pandemic Way of Life
As a participant in the Certificate in Resilient Service, we were encouraged to make our own Way of Life. A Way of Life is a guide to help incorporate practices that point you towards your values. When the shelter-in-place order started, I began to recognize little parts of my day that brought me joy. It […]
The Potential of an Equitable Classroom
On January 22nd of this year, I attended Jamar Tisby’s lecture at Seattle Pacific University based on his book, The Color of Compromise. He began with the story of a speech by White civil rights lawyer Charles Morgan Jr at the Birmingham Young Men’s Business Club in Birmingham, Alabama the day after the murder of […]
Announcing Board of Trustees Transitions at The Seattle School
The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology announces transitions within its Board of Trustees. Shannon Eckmann will replace Mike Anderson as Board Chair as he steps down after serving on the board for ten years, eight as Board Chair. Dr. Dave Brandt and Mark Daley, members of the board for ten and four years respectively […]
Processing Amidst a Pandemic: A Collection of Student Artwork
As a way of processing the losses and challenges brought about by the pandemic, students at The Seattle School began to create—through painting, poetry, photography, and many other mediums. Art is a tactile way to express the grief, pain, and longing, moving these emotions out of one’s body into the open. Here, we share a […]
A Movement Towards Listening and Conversations about Whiteness
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 […]
On Engaging in a Sustained Conversation About Race and Whiteness
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 […]
Igniting the Pilot Lights: How White Folks Can Respond to Racial Injustice
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 Through Art: Student Work on Miyazaki Hayao and Kara Walker
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 […]
What You Need to Know about Becoming a Licensed Mental Health Counselor
If you’re currently in or are considering a counseling psychology program, you’re probably familiar with the acronyms like LMHC, or LPC, or other credentials behind people’s names. Here, Nicole Greenwald, a licensed counselor with over 10 years of experience, talks about the most frequently asked questions about the counseling licensure process—from different state requirements to […]