Intersections at The Seattle School

We are thrilled to announce an upcoming course taught by Forrest Inslee, Adjunct Faculty, and Ben Katt, founding executive director of the Aurora Commons and host of the RePlacing Church Podcast. “Reading Culture,” coming in the Fall 2017 term, is an innovative and experiential class, in which participants—including Seattle School students and others who are […]

Most of us probably hear the word “narcissism” in conversation with some regularity, often used to refer to a distant, disembodied other. Here, D. Michael Louderback (MACP, ‘13), an analytic psychotherapist and ongoing contributor to this blog, argues that it is all too easy to separate narcissism from its context. Michael pulls from the voices of […]

On the second episode of text.soul.culture, a new podcast from The Seattle School Dr. J. Derek McNeil, Academic Dean, is joined by Jimmy McGee, President and CEO of the Impact Movement, about living as people of engaged wisdom in a complex and hurting world. Jimmy was the keynote speaker at our 2017 Humanity Through Community […]

This week we are thrilled to launch text.soul.culture, a new podcast from The Seattle School. Hosted and curated by Dr. J. Derek McNeil, Academic Dean, text.soul.culture is guided by a commitment to understanding narrative, wrestling with intersections, resisting reactivity, and fostering radical hospitality. Every other week, Derek will be joined by faculty members, alumni, visiting […]

As we move through the rhythms of Holy Week, both individually and communally, Seth Thomas (Master of Divinity, ’16) writes about what it means to live this story in the contexts of our particular places. Seth recalls the grand, colorful Easter parades he witnessed in Guatemala, before turning toward his own home in Bellingham and wondering […]

Students at The Seattle School choose again and again to wade into the difficulty and pain of their own stories in hopes of fostering healing change in the lives of others and the world around them. Here, Heather Casimere, first-year MA in Theology & Culture student, writes about the perseverance required to choose the hard […]

Last October we hosted the second annual Symposia: An Intersection of Conversation & Innovation, a forum in which alumni of The Seattle School presented the ongoing work they are pursuing at the intersection of text, soul, and culture. Integrative education does not end at graduation, and our alumni are proof of that. Symposia highlights the […]

At the end of every academic year, we host the Integrative Project symposium, in which The Seattle School’s alumni, current students, faculty, staff, and the Seattle community at large are invited to witness and celebrate the bold, thoughtful, and creative work of our graduating Master of Divinity and MA in Theology & Culture students. For […]

The season of Lent invites us to wrestle with the realities of death and the hope of resurrection in creative, embodied ways. Here, Brittany Deininger, second-year MA in Theology & Culture student, writes about how a particular sculpture and the story of Jonah are leading her to consider imagination, creation, and the space between life […]

Today we’re excited to feature the third episode of the Listening in Place Project with Cassie Carroll (Master of Divinity, ‘16), which we feature monthly here on the Intersections blog. After graduating from The Seattle School, Cassie launched Listening in Place, a venture in which she is collecting stories from church planters, practitioners, pastors, social […]

Recently on this blog, Michael Louderback (MA in Counseling Psychology, ‘13) wrote about the psychology of transference and how we work out our humanity through our posture toward strangers. Here, Seth Thomas (Master of Divinity, ‘16) writes about how theology enlivens and sharpens that conversation. Seth reflects on his own experience and the example of […]

Last October we hosted the second annual Symposia: An Intersection of Conversation & Innovation, a forum in which alumni of The Seattle School presented the ongoing work they are pursuing at the intersection of text, soul, and culture. Integrative education does not end at graduation, and our alumni are proof of that. Symposia highlights the […]