Intersections at The Seattle School
How I Began to Write a New Story
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 […]
The Story Workshop Celebrates 10th Anniversary
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 […]
Now Available: The New Parish by Paul Sparks, Tim Soerens, & Dwight J. Friesen
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 […]
What If There Were a New Type of MDiv?
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 […]
Intimate Mystery Conference in St. Louis, March 1
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 Hosts The Justice Conference Seattle
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 Speaks to College Students at Jubilee Conference
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 […]
Student Leadership
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 […]
Exhale
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 […]
The Seattle School Preview: A View from the Front Desk
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 […]
The Bells Still Chime
My sunrise service on Easter Sunday took place at The Seattle School. With more impending due dates than I could keep track of, I chose to write papers instead of attending a morning church service. Let’s not judge here. The decision to do homework on Easter wasn’t exactly an arduous one, anyway. I have been […]
The Church is a Community that Holds
Earlier this year, a memorial to rape survivors was temporarily in place in the reflection pool of the Washington Monument. The letters floated in blood red on the water’s surface, reading “I CAN’T FORGET WHAT HAPPENED BUT NO ONE ELSE REMEMBERS.” Upon encountering the image, my first thought was “Of course, that’s why we have […]