Intersections at The Seattle School

This month, six students from The Seattle School will participate in a one-week intensive in Guatemala City. The cross-cultural course, “Engaging Global Partnerships: Creating Conversations with Grassroots Leaders in their Context,” will be hosted by Guatemalan leaders serving Guatemala City communities impacted by poverty, lack of education, homelessness, addiction, and gang violence. Under the leadership […]

In our families, friend groups, organizations, and culture at large, we often find ourselves operating under unspoken rules and rituals without ever considering their impact on us. Here, Dan Cumberland (MACS ‘12) invites us to consider the impact of these rules and wonder about what it might mean to live in a new way. Dan […]

On March 10-11, we are hosting Redeeming Food and Body, a two-day conference engaging our relationships with food, our bodies, and what health and wholeness look like through an integration of theology, therapy, and nutrition. The event’s interdisciplinary teaching staff will include a mental health therapist, a dietician, and a theologian, who will lead us […]

As we pursue the hard work of wrestling deeply with our own stories, we come face to face with internal voices of condemnation and shame. Here, Charlie Howell, a third-year MA in Counseling Psychology student, writes about his own recent confrontation with those voices, and his deepening understanding of how they developed and how they […]

Last October, we hosted the first 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 highlighted the […]

This month marks the publication of Healing the Wounded Heart, the new book from Dr. Dan Allender, Professor of Counseling Psychology at The Seattle School, where he also served as the founding President. In Healing the Wounded Heart, which explores recent discoveries about the lasting physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual ramifications of sexual abuse, Dr. […]

Last week, we featured a reflection from Dr. Dan Allender about Spotlight, winner of the 2016 Best Picture Oscar. Now we turn to another big winner from this year’s Academy Awards: Mad Max: Fury Road, which received an impressive 10 Oscar nominations and 6 wins. Here, Kate Rae Davis, Human Resources Generalist and 2015 Master […]

During Lent, we remember the 40 days Jesus fasted in the wilderness, and we mark our own periods of wilderness, grief, fasting, and doubt—our need, ultimately, for resurrection. Here, Jessica Hoekstra, a second-year MA in Counseling Psychology student, shares a poem wrestling with how doubt, anxiety, and sadness affect her understanding of humanity, divinity, and […]

Last weekend, the film Spotlight won the Oscar for Best Picture at the Academy Awards. Earlier this year, we shared Dr. Dan Allender’s enthusiastic response to the film, followed by his reminder that sexual abuse does not only concern the Catholic Church. Here, Dan returns to his gratitude for the reception Spotlight has received, before […]

As we continue to move through the liturgical season of Lent, we are invited to confront our brokenness, our wildernesses both internal and external, and our ever-present need for resurrection. Here, Brittany Deininger, a first-year MA in Theology & Culture student, reflects on a poetry series engaging the seven deadly sins, which she was commissioned […]

Last October, we hosted the first 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 highlighted the […]

In Lent, we remember the trials and the death of Christ in a way that invites suffering and silence into our present lives. But if we believe that resurrection is real and ongoing, and if we believe that the Lenten wilderness leads to new life, how does that change our response to suffering? Here, J […]