Intersections at The Seattle School

For the second podcast in this series, Dr. Paul Hoard and Dr. Doug Shirley invited Dr. Monique Gadson, Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology, to share her perspective on the Ghosts & Shadows conversation. Dr. Gadson joined The Seattle School in 2022 as Assistant Professor of Counseling Psychology. Listen to her engage Dr. Hoard and Dr. […]

In this season as The Seattle School has been looking back at the first 25 years, we, Dr. Paul Hoard and Dr. Doug Shirley, have been exploring what it means to live with the legacies and histories in our community, as well as how to engage with these proverbial ghosts and shadows, these systemic inheritances. […]

This spring, join us for a unique, relational event addressing the pressing questions of our time and place. The upcoming 2024 Christ & Cascadia Gathering on April 25, 2024, marks the revival of an annual Christ & Cascadia tradition, now under the stewardship of The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology. We aim to foster […]

As we marked 25 years since the founding of The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology, Dr. Doug Shirley and Dr. Paul Hoard, two of our core faculty members, began exploring together what it means for our institution to have a history and to be haunted by a legacy. In the three essays in this […]

In this season of gathering and gaming, we want to share with you the first part of a series created by faculty and staff. Dr. Jermaine Ma, Visiting Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Paul Steinke, Vice President of Alumni & Community Relations, and Dr. Paul Hoard, Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology, began a conversation around their […]

The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology has received a grant of $1,250,000 from Lilly Endowment Inc. to help continue efforts to equip leaders by gathering lay and ordained, active and aspiring preachers in the western region of the United States to develop their preaching skills and support one another in the art and spiritual […]

On October 6, The Seattle School community hosted the book launch for Holy Runaways written by Matthias Roberts MATC ‘17 MACP ‘18. Like many of us, Matthias grew up with books about orphans, and at the event,  he described how this theme inspired him to explore his own journey. Runaways and orphans must leave their […]

Our hope at The Seattle School is to be led by our alumni and their stories. Hillary Augustine graduated in 2007 with her Master of Arts in Counseling (MAC). She recently shared with us more about her new book, The Currency Paradigm, her studies at The Seattle School, and her life today. Tell us about […]

This series of student work from a recent elective course offered to all our graduate students is a window into the integrations and intersections that are created in our curriculum and our classrooms at The Seattle School, not only in theology and psychology, but also social justice, ecology, local context, and individualized research. The Multimedia […]

This series of student work from a recent elective course taken by both MACP and MATC students is a window into the integration and intersections that take place in our curriculum and our classrooms at The Seattle School, not only theology and psychology, but also social justice, ecology, local context, and individualized research. This piece […]

This series of student work from a recent elective course offered to all our graduate students is a window into the integration and intersections that are created in our curriculum and our classrooms at The Seattle School, not only theology and psychology, but also social justice, ecology, local context, and individualized research. This essay from […]

The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology is proud to have received a sustainability grant of $500,000 from Lilly Endowment through its Thriving in Ministry Initiative. These funds are a matching grant to support the Center for Transforming Engagement to gather ministry leaders to develop their resilience and leadership. In these efforts, the Center joins […]