Intersections at The Seattle School

When I try to speak about this last year, my third in The Seattle School’s MDiv program, it starts out like a joke: “A Lutheran, an Episcopalian, a Presbyterian, a Quaker, a Mennonite, a Church of Christ…er, a Reformed Protestant, a Baptist, a Disciple of Christ, and a Free Churcher walk into a bar.” Except […]

Art brings me to the very edge of myself. Creating art tips me over completely. This poem was born while at the very end of my artistic crisis. I had gone through a dry spell for over a year, no paint, no pen to paper, no movement, nothing. After attending The Seattle School’s Artist Residency, […]

This spring, I was invited to be the Associate Professor of Theology & Culture here at The Seattle School. I am excited and humbled to be called faculty. This new position comes after years of transition and disorientation. Five years ago, I left the place I loved: New Horizons Ministries. I had served marginalized young […]

Dwight J. Friesen (Associate Professor of Practical Theology), Tim Soerens, and Paul Sparks, Leadership in the New Parish Certificate program facilitators and authors of the popular book, The New Parish, recently returned from a multi-city book tour along the West Coast of the United States and into Canada. During the tour, the authors met with […]

After finally accepting the fact that my sex does not disqualify me from leadership, finally accepting that I (might kind of sort of) have a gift for pastoring, and finally accepting that the next step was to earn an MDiv, the question became: where would I go? Staying in the area I lived in wasn’t […]

This fall, all incoming students will attend “Frameworks & Intersections,” a two-day course intended to provide new students with context for their time at The Seattle School, introduce the school’s pedagogy and learning methods, and provide academic resources and other information to help students be successful in the classroom. Frameworks & Intersections serves as a […]

When I knew I was leaving The Seattle School, it occurred to me that I felt like a book that had been on inter-library loan. Perhaps somehow the kingdom of God was like a big inter-connected library system. The metaphor captured the strong sense I have had from the early days of my tenure at […]

The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology and the Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study are partnering for the sixth year to present a two-day guest lecture seminar, September 19-20, 2014. Professor of Counseling Psychology Dr. Roy Barsness is coordinating this fall’s event, featuring guest lecturer Dr. Lewis Aron. Dr. Aron is the Director of the […]

In 2010 my husband and I were in Moshi, Tanzania working under a non-profit doing sustainable development projects. While there, we began dreaming and brainstorming about the work we wanted to be part of in the coffee industry. Situated at the base of Mount Kilimanjaro, we were quite literally surrounded by coffee farms, but our […]

This fall, the Office of Students and Alumni will launch Alumni Portfolio Groups after a successful pilot group this past year. Serving 2014 graduates, Portfolio Groups respond to the growing desire for community, guidance, and resources among graduating students as they transition from being students at The Seattle School to provocateurs of change in the […]

I grew up on the shores of the beautiful Puget Sound. Sunday mornings after church were spent sitting beside the water, watching it lap up against the breaks near the Edmonds-Kingston ferry, watching seagulls and boats go by, and watching waves crash. As a kid, I was not troubled with the origin of waves or […]

After eight years of service and leadership as Professor of Biblical Studies, Dr. Jo-Ann Badley is ending her time at The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology to become the Dean of Theology at Ambrose University in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Ambrose University enrolls an average of 800 students, with 14 […]