Intersections at The Seattle School

Recently, someone asked me what books have shaped my life. I rattled off what came to my head, but the question has stayed with me. This person wasn’t interested in simply what I liked; this wasn’t a question about preferences. She was asking what was important to me—what had influenced me—but I don’t really think […]

A sold-out crowd of parish leaders from around North America and beyond recently gathered at The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology during the final weekend of April for the fourth annual Inhabit Conference. This year’s conference was themed “Rooting & Linking” and featured an impressive collective of speakers doing kingdom work in neighborhoods and […]

I’m always curious about the serendipity of things, especially since I don’t believe anything is simply happenstance. I’m not sure I chose to attend The Story Workshop in 2009 as much as it was something that just had to happen. Yes, I asked to be placed on a waiting list. Yes, I booked my own […]

2014 marks the 10th anniversary of The Story Workshop at The Allender Center, a profound event that invites participants deeply into the themes of their lives, offering encouragement as they seek to understand, write, tell, and live their stories in deeper and more transformative ways. “We consider The Story Workshop to be The Allender Center’s […]

The new book by Leadership in the New Parish Certificate facilitators and Inhabit Conference co-creators Paul Sparks, Tim Soerens, and Dwight J. Friesen was recently released by InterVarsity Press and is currently on the “Hot New Releases” list on Amazon within the Christian Evangelism category. Watch the official trailer and read the description below for […]

We started The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology for one reason: to start an MDiv program. One evening, I sat around the kitchen table, reminiscing with friends and colleagues about our time in seminary. All of us, except one, had received an MDiv and found it equally life-changing and profoundly frustrating. We all found […]

Saturday, March 1, marked the sixth Intimate Mystery conference held by The Allender Center in the past year. Our most popular conference, the Intimate Mystery Conference was hosted at Covenant Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri, in partnership with CrossRoads Counseling. The conference was sold-out, with over 430 in attendance from more than 10 states, including […]

The Seattle School was honored to partner with the Justice Conference as a simulcast site for the Seattle area on February 21-22. An annual event featuring prominent voices in the Christian conversation on social justice, The Justice Conference “educates, inspires and connects a generation of men and women around a shared concern for biblical and […]

Dan Allender recently served as a keynote speaker at the Jubilee Conference in Pittsburgh, PA from February 14-16. An annual event with over 3,000 in attendance, the Jubilee Conference gathers college students around the connection between academics and faith, inviting them to imagine how their faith might be lived out fully in their life, particularly […]

We gather in a circle, hand in hand, and scan the faces of those standing in our midst. It is 8:30pm on Wednesday night, and most of us are undoubtedly feeling spent after full days of classes, work, internship and studying. And still, we gather. We take the hand of those nearest to us and […]

I can’t help but smile when I see the remnant of luggage decorating the spaces in our building. It is a reminder of the history that inhabits these walls. And before the luggage factory, back when the Puget waters met the western wall, a fisherman’s wharf greeted the day’s catch with open arms. This is […]

I love Preview Weekends. I have plenty of reasons not to. As a student worker, I spends Saturdays single-handedly covering both the library and the front desk. It’s not an incredibly heavy workload, but for those few hours I am the first resource for a steady stream of students needing anything from paperclips to paper […]