Please join us in congratulating the graduating class of 2026! We are very proud of our students and look forward to the honor of sending them out into the world to embody our mission in the world. This year’s graduation ceremony will be held at Town Hall Seattle on Saturday, June 20, at 10:00 am […]
The purity movement of the 1990s is usually seen as a grassroots pushback against the sexual revolution—a return to “biblical values” in a more permissive culture. But that view misses something important: purity culture actually grew out of a much longer effort by evangelicals, spanning about a century, to figure out how to respond to […]
This conversation explores Eucontamination as a theological framework for understanding how disgust shapes our inner lives, communities, and responses to difference. Building from their book Eucontamination, Paul and Billie Hoard argue that disgust is not merely an emotional reflex but a formative moment that reveals what we fear, what we exclude, and what we imagine […]
Many White individuals express aspirations toward anti-racism, yet struggle to translate these intentions into meaningful action that fosters belonging for all. How can we help White members of our organizations move beyond ideological platitudes to embodied practices that build equitable communities? Drs. Paul Hoard (psychology) and Ron Ruthruff (theology) have spent the past three years […]