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Intersections at The Seattle School
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10 Women Theologians You Should Be Reading
“What are you reading?” It’s a question often heard within the walls of many learning institutions, yet the answer that follows is typically in regards to a textbook or a predetermined selection of pages for a class. Today, we’d like to help you expand your reading list—whether you’re a student, life-long learner, or someone who […]
Where Are You Called to Serve?
As we welcomed a new cohort of students to our community, Dr. J. Derek McNeil called upon these new and returning learners to deeply consider the question: How can you come to graduate school and serve? Watch Dr. J. Derek McNeil’s address to our incoming cohort: “text.soul.culture is a vehicle. The purpose clause is to […]
Relational Perspectives Series with Dr. Usha Tummala-Narra
“In the US, race takes a particular form. Indians in the US and more broadly South Asians have, like every other cultural group that is raised upon migration, a framework for understanding race. More often than not these frameworks are less visible and more likely to be dismissed by notions of immigrants as people who […]
Convocation: An Invitation to a Greater Love
Dan Allender shared these convicting words during Convocation on September 14, 2019, at St. Mark’s Cathedral. Read his full address as he calls upon each of us to be open, humble, and to come into a better love. For us all this is a phenomenal beginning, and a gracious gift of God to have you […]
Learning Takes Your Whole Body
President J. Derek McNeil, PhD, invites incoming students to not only an informing but formative experience at The Seattle School. “I sat with a student one day and she said to me, ‘This school takes your whole body.’ Do you really want to get into this? Do you really want to give that much? Learning […]
Entering Our 22nd Year
“Oh sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth! Sing to the Lord, bless his name; tell of his salvation from day to day.” Psalm 96:1-2 As we entered into our 22nd year as a school Dr. Derek McNeil, Acting President posed the question: What does it look like […]
Announcing New Common Curriculum at The Seattle School
In an increasingly fragmented and complex culture, we at The Seattle School are renewed in our mission to train people to be competent in the study of text.soul.culture in order to serve God and neighbor through transforming relationships. Since our founding we have been compelled by multi-modal, practice-oriented learning and service in the world. In […]
Family Life at The Seattle School
My family’s journey to Seattle has marked our lives in more ways than we could have imagined. After searching for a school that fit my husband’s desire to engage theology and social justice, and to also provide training for mental health counseling, we discovered The Seattle School. After visiting, we felt sure that this was […]
Commencement 2019: A Charge for a Changed Voice
Every year at Commencement, a faculty member delivers a charge to the graduating class as they prepare to go and live into their callings. Here, Dr. Angela Parker, Affiliate Faculty for Biblical Studies, charges graduates to leave their career as students here with a changed voice. You can also view the entire Commencement ceremony here. […]
En Su Presencia Somos Preciosos, Pero en Los Estados Unidos No Somos Bienvenidos
Seguido escuchamos las llamadas para trabajar por la paz y reconciliación en nuestro país (los Estados Unidos) después de un acto de terrorismo –pero, ignoramos que nuestra misma cultura está uniendo con un temor del uno a otro. Nuestra cultura teme las diferencias, y eso alimenta “la supremacía blanca” porque nos quedamos callados mientras el […]
Precious in His Sight, Not Welcome in America
Often we hear calls for peace and reconciliation following an act of racism that overlook the fact that our culture is, in many ways, sinking back into one with a deep fear of the other. A culture that fears difference, that fuels white supremacy by staying silent while messages of oppression are spoken by those […]
Receive and Reciprocate: The Generosity of Shared Space
Soon, you will cross the narrow threshold at 2501 Elliott Ave, stepping from the weathered smells of saltwater and railroad tracks into the scents of coffee, books, and the stories that have been and are still forming in and around you. The Seattle School is a community of intentional forming and re-forming, and in that […]