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 […]
Today marks the fourth and final Sunday in Advent—the season in the Church calendar where we wait, with great hope and anticipation, for the coming of Jesus to earth, both as fully God and fully human. To close our Advent series, President McNeil calls us to remember the importance of embodying Jesus Christ in our […]
Jenny Wade shares how her journey of learning to inhabit her body in a new, life-giving way informs her sense of vocation.
Several Seattle School alumni reflect on the rhythms, rituals, and practices that help connect us to our bodies and foster transformation.
All this month, we’re exploring how to open ourselves to the nurture required to live as embodied people committed to the movement of hope and healing.
Laura Wade Shirley writes about the work of spiritual health, and how running helps connect her body, mind, and spirit more fully to God and herself.
Beau Denton reflects on the gifts the poet Mary Oliver left us with, and what her life and work reveal about the nature of love.