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Leung, Julie

Julie Leung arrived at The Seattle School in 2021, first serving as the Institutional Support Supervisor at the front desk on campus, before becoming the Communications Specialist a year later. She’s been a longtime fan of The Seattle School, appreciating the intersections and spaces held by our community, spaces of integrity and safety, spaces for […]

11 Black Educators We’re Learning From

Black History Month invites us into a posture of remembering the people and events that impacted our history not only in the past, but also as history is unfolding in the present. Here you will find a list of eleven Black educators and writers from a wide range of disciplines who are making history today. […]

The Seattle School Hires Jim Ehrman as Vice President of Advancement

The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology has hired Jim Ehrman as Vice President of Advancement, and amidst the opportunity that our current cultural climate offers, his change-management background represents another timely addition to the school’s executive leadership. Prior to coming to The Seattle School, Jim served as the Executive Vice President and Dean at […]

Processing Amidst a Pandemic: A Collection of Student Artwork

As a way of processing the losses and challenges brought about by the pandemic, students at The Seattle School began to create—through painting, poetry, photography, and many other mediums. Art is a tactile way to express the grief, pain, and longing, moving these emotions out of one’s body into the open. Here, we share a […]

Haase, Millicent

Millicent serves as an Admissions Counselor where she has the privilege of introducing The Seattle School to prospective graduate school students and Allender Center participants alike. “It is such an honor and a joy to be invited into story, to discover why The Seattle School fits with our students’ desires for the world, and how […]

Hope

Hope is building a house that she imagines will be a home. She didn’t plan to build, there was the hope that maybe she could inherit the family home, the one that’s been passed down through generations. But the thing is…the home is older and wearier and rotting out. There are deep cracks in the […]

Embodying Jesus Christ in Our Relationships

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 […]

The Gift of Holy Uncertainty

Today marks the third 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. We are grateful for the words of Dr. J.P. Kang, who provides us a renewed lens through which to see our […]

The Practice of Waiting

When is the last time you truly felt that God was present with you? Immanuel God with us, Where are you now? Immanuel Our God with us, Be here somehow This is the chorus to Jason Morant’s contribution to the Liturgists’ Advent album, A Light, and every year when I listen to it I am […]

A Divine Challenge

Today marks the beginning of 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. Here, Jennifer Fernandez, PhD, ABD, reflects on the divine challenge of Jesus to love radically and how, even though we are in […]

Lit Magazine: A Selection of Poems

“I love it when students take poetry and art and it almost begins to dance because they connect it to ideas that are happening in the classroom. Those are magical moments for me […] We’re doing all of this through transforming relationships. It’s more than just a mission statement—it’s the place where imagination happens. This […]

The Spirituality of Enchantment: A Life that Flourishes

An Introduction by Dr. Kj Swanson: Every other year, The Seattle School offers the course SFD (Spiritual Formation & Direction) 523 Spirituality & the Arts and with each offering, the instructor has focused on a particular form of art as a way to explore spiritual practices and how the arts can inform and sustain spiritual […]