I’m excited to inform you that as of the beginning of last week we officially changed the name of our school – Mars Hill Graduate School is now The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology. The staff has been hard at work these past months as we prepared for this change. Official documents were changed, governing bodies were notified, a new web domain was secured, email addresses updated, stationery was designed and ordered, and as you can see we have updated our brand to better reflect our identity.

Our new name will now carry our important mission and work into the future.  And may God continue to bless our efforts to train people to be competent in the study of text, soul and culture in order to serve God and neighbor through transforming relationships.

Important Info:

• Our new web address is theseattleschool.edu
• Email addresses: First Initial Last Name @theseattleschool.edu – emails sent to @mhgs.edu will be forwarded on for several months.
• Building signage updates are coming this week.
• For short, please utilize “The Seattle School” as opposed to our new initials TSS or TSSTP.

Peace, dwight

Come join Jon in exploring how Christian faith can be a source of hospitality rather than hostility, one that opens a space for meaningful conversation between religious and secular people, and increased traffic between religious and secular thought, in our pluralistic society.

February 9, 2011, Wednesday evening at 7:00 pm @ MHGS

Three organizations are partnering together to bring Dr. Jon Stanley to Seattle to guide us into this important conversation exploring our changing context(s):

Parish Collective’s “Pedagogy of Presence” Series

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MHGS’s “Alumni Speaker Series,”

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The Other Journal’s “God is Dead and I don’t Feel So Good Myself”

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I hope to see you there.

Peace, Dwight

Dr. Pinnock was a strong and at times conversational voice in the Evangelical movement.  He taught most recently at MacMaster Divinity College in Hamilton, Ontario in Canada.  And published many books, including (but certainly not limited to):

Flame of Love: A Theology of the Holy Spirit (one of my favorite books on the theology of the Holy Spirit),

The Scripture Principle: Reclaiming the Full Authority of the Bible,

The Grace of God and the Will of Man,

Dr. Pinnock also wrote Most Moved Mover: A Theology of God’s Openness and co-authored, The Openness of God: A Biblical Challenge to the Traditional Understanding of God, both of which were central to discussion of what has become known as “Open Theism.”

No stranger to controversy Dr. Pinnock affirmed an annihilationist view of hell that says that the “unsaved” will experience extinction rather than eternal conscious torment.

Both my sister-in-law and my brother had the pleasure of studying under Dr. Pinnock.  Though I never had the privilege of meeting Dr. Pinnock I am deeply grateful for his writing and his contribution to North American Christian theology and especially for his influence within the Evangelical movement.

My deepest sympathies go out to his wife Dorothy, Little Bethel Community Church, and all who were blessed to personally know him.

For more on the legacy of the late Dr. Clark Pinnock see:

• Greg Boyd: Clark Pinnock has Finished the Race!
• Thomas Oord: Clark Pinnock passing onto glory
• T. C. Moore: Clark Pinnock’s legacy

Peace, dwight

Zuckerman creatively points out that though web connects the globe, most of us end up hearing mainly from people just like ourselves.  He highlights some insightful stories and useful strategies to open up your Twitter world and read the news in languages you don’t even know.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V5k5kprkpQ

Peace, dwight

As I’ve been reading I have to say that Botswanan biblical scholar, Dr. Musa Dube is fast becoming one of my favorite theologians.

I first discovered Musa a number of years ago while doing some research on interpretations of Israel conquering Jericho.  But ever since I learned that Dr. Dube will be part of the Emergent Theological Conversation I’ve been ordering and reading everything I can get my hands on.

Thought I’d pass along a link a great essay by Musa titled: “Jumping the Fire with Judah: Postcolonial Feminist Hermeneutics of Liberation,” it from a collection edited by Silvia Schroer & Sophia Bietenhard titled: Feminist Interpretation of the Bible and Hermeneutics of Liberation.

Peace, dwight

I believe this conversation is a transcript from “Examined Life.”

Peace, dwight

peace, dwight

Philip Clayton and Tripp Fuller are putting together what is looking to be a fascinating conversation.

Peace, dwight

Here’s a link to the talks.

it was a great privilege to hear Professor Moltmann tell his story and engage candidly with our panelists and the crowd.

Special thanks to Tony Jones, Doug Pagitt and JoPa Productions for carrying the lion’s share of creating, moderating and hosting this 2009 Emergent Theology Conversation.

Peace, dwight

Though I did not know Dr. Anderson personally, I have read many, many of his writings, and have been personally influenced by many whose lives he touched.  For a lovely tribute of his life see Christian D. Kettler’s blog.

My deepest condolences go out to all those for whom Ray’s death leaves a daily void.

peace, dwight