Intersections at The Seattle School
Center for Transforming Engagement: Year One Updates
Director Kate Davis spoke at the launch celebration in March 2022 The first year of the Center for Transforming Engagement has been an exciting process of developing responsive programs and resources. The work of the Center for Transforming Engagement is to equip adaptive leaders with tools from the social sciences to lead communities of faith, […]
The Other Journal Offers Multi-Tiered Subscription Access
After nineteen years of publishing quality, multidisciplinary content at the intersection of theology and culture, The Seattle School is excited to announce that The Other Journal is now offering multi-tiered subscription access. The journal will continue publishing two interdisciplinary issues per year, and it will be accessed and distributed in new and exciting ways. With […]
Thanksgiving Vespers: Rest, Renewal & Refreshment in Community
As a learning community, we follow rhythms through the year that help us serve God and neighbor. Together, we steward practices that have grown and developed throughout our history. Our seasonal events and rituals guide us to gather, remember, and celebrate. These collective rhythms shape us deeply, and have formed us as a community that […]
Art on our Walls: Tara Hubbard’s Collages
The Seattle School has reserved a portion of its public space on both the second and third floors to display and honor art created by students, staff, faculty, and alumni, as well as artists from the greater Seattle area. This fall, collages created by Tara Hubbard MATC ’22 are featured in the second-floor Commons area […]
The Seattle School Announces Inaugural Senior Scholar: Esther Lightcap Meek, PhD
The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology is excited to announce that philosopher, professor, and author Dr. Esther Meek will be serving as the inaugural Senior Scholar starting in 2022. As we celebrate twenty-five years as an interdisciplinary graduate school and seminary, this new position and opportunity highlights our theological scholarship. Senior Scholars at The […]
Meet the Writing Center Consultants
The Writing Center is a digital space that supports Seattle School students in their development as writers and is the primary resource for accessing writing resources, such as paper formatting guidelines and citation help for APA and Chicago Turabian Style. (You’ll be using both, whatever degree you do.) The Writing Center offers free one-on-one consultations […]
Convocation: Celebrating Our 25th Year
In 2022, Convocation served as the sacred culmination of our Orientation, (Re)Orientation, Residency, and Community Week events. Alumni, faculty, staff, and returning students gathered to commit themselves to a new year together, formally welcoming new students into our learning community with liturgy, prayer, and song. Watch our community’s gathering at St. Mark’s Cathedral, and hear […]
The Quaking of America: A Book Release Event with Resmaa Menakem
On July 1, 2022, President J. Derek McNeil welcomed Resmaa Menakem in Seattle on tour for his newest book, The Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating Our Nation’s Upheaval and Racial Reckoning. Author, therapist, and licensed clinical social worker, Resmaa Menakem specializes in the healing of racialized trauma and also advocates for Somatic […]
The Liminal Place
We shake with joy, we shake with grief. What a time they have, these two housed as they are in the same body. –Mary Oliver Being human is complex—especially being human in a body. There are moments in life when the tensions we hold are simply overwhelming, disorienting, and beyond language, like losing someone we […]
What You Need to Know about Student Lifecycle Programming
Just like you, we staff and faculty are anticipating and preparing for the arrival of fall and the learning journey on which we will embark together this year. Here at The Seattle School, as we tend to the learning and formation that our students and alumni experience, we talk about the Student and Alumni Lifecycle. […]
Faculty Friday: Dr. Doug Shirley
Today’s Faculty Friday is an introduction to Dr. Doug Shirley, Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology. Doug previously worked as adjunct faculty at The Seattle School, having taught Practicum I and II, Interpersonal Foundations, and History and Therapeutic Perspectives before becoming core faculty in the Counseling Psychology program. Doug now serves as practicum director, overseeing Listening […]
Faculty Friday: Dr. Dwight Friesen
Today’s faculty highlight is Dr. Dwight J. Friesen, Associate Professor of Practical Theology. Dr. Friesen brings many years of contextual pastoral experience to The Seattle School. Currently he is serving as the part-time Pastor of Bellevue’s St Luke’s Lutheran Church. He was the community-curate of an Eastside emerging simple church for more than 11 years; […]