Well, I’m very excited that UN-Habitat’s 12th convening of the World Urban Forum is just a few days away. WUF is the world’s premier conference on sustainable urbanization. This year – for the first time – there is a Faith
This Saturday, I’m supposed to board a plane bound for Cairo, Egypt, to attend the 12th convening of the “World Urban Forum” (WUF12) hosted by UN-Habitat. It’s an event I’ve been eagerly anticipating—except for one small issue: my passport and
I am excited to take part in celebrating God’s call to serve as a minister of the liberating Gospel of Jesus of Nazareth in the life of Holly Greenidge. Holly’s ordination service will take place in Portland, Oregon, on Saturday,
The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology and the You Have Permission podcast invite you to an exclusive pre-conference meal ahead of Theology Beer Camp 2024. This engaging event features thought-provoking discussion and embodied learning. Join licensed therapists, theologians, and
Looking forward to being with the Edmonds Lutheran Church tomorrow. Come by if you’re in the area. Peace, dwight
There is still time to join the – first-ever – Faith Pavilion at UN-Habitat’s Twelveth convening of the World Urban Forum. Applications are due by Monday, October 14th, 2024. This is an amazing opportunity to meet and collaborate with global
Beginning later today, I will be serving as the Theologian in Residence for this year’s Western Gathering of Leaders. Innovative Episcopal leaders will be convening to share best practices, and I get to frame some of the shifts within Western
Next week, the Office of the President will be hosting Lisa Sharon Harper at The Seattle School to speak on a Christian call to engage the tragedies in Gaza. The school’s intention is to encourage our community to consider the
This weekend I get to preach at St. Columba’s Episcopal Church in Kent to launch a short series of midweek conversations about our evolving times and cultural context. My working title is: “What’s Going Here? Becoming St Columba’s in a
I’m excited to be not only attending this year’s Theology Beer Camp but to be participating in a “Pre-Game Event” with Dan Koch and a gaggle of folx connected through The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology. Our pre-game event, “Sacred
The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology hosted its 2024 Integrative Projects & Portfolio Symposium back in June, providing our graduating MDiv and MATC students a platform for sharing their capstone projects. Such great work! I love what I get to do. Peace, dwight April
UN-Habitat recently released a new resource to help you facilitate multi-level urban forums. Urban Forums are critical and inclusive platforms to domesticate and localize global agendas and to advance evidence-based policymaking and review, as well as communicating policy outcomes and
Just watched Keanu Reeves on The Late Show sharing his delight as an artist to have been part of making The Matrix… it touched so many people. Peace, dwight
Here’s a short profile, highlighting the focus of my teaching and scholarship at The Seattle School. I believe it was posted last week. Peace, dwight
Last week Lynette and I took a few days to go down and do a little hiking on Mt Rainier. We had perfect weather! Just look at that sky! So beautiful! Peace, dwight
On Sunday, July 21st, 2024 – one week from today – I have the privilege of guest presiding & preaching at St Luke’s in North Bellevue. That week’s Gospel lectionary text is Mark 6:30-34 & 53-54 – while I’m still
‘...love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your strength, and all your mind.’ And, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”
Jesus Christ
Jesus, properly understood as shalom, coming into the world from the shalom community of the Trinity, is the intention of God’s once-and-for-all mission. That is, the mission of birthing and restoring shalom to the world is in Christ, by Christ, and for the honor of Christ.”
Randy Woodley
Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat."
Audre Lorde
I cannot be an optimist but I am a prisoner of hope.”
Cornel West
Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone."
Margaret J. Wheatley
You can't have unity without diversity."
Richard Twiss
While good theology does include academic debate, it never stops there. Good theologians discuss intellectual questions and concern themselves with academic debate because their chief concern is life. They want to know the truth not merely so that they might think properly, but so that they might live..."
Stanley J. Grenz
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
Martin Luther King Jr
Faith is not settled belief but living process. It is the very edge and opening of life in process. To live is to step with trust into the next moment: into the unpredictable."
Catherine Keller
If I sit next to a madman as he drives a car into a group of innocent bystanders, I can't, as a Christian, simply wait for the catastrophe, then comfort the wounded and bury the dead. I must try to wrestle the steering wheel out of the hands of the driver."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Salvation fits into a unified view of the entire world, and yet it is also gritty, localized, and contextual. It is grounded in concrete experiences of the world. It must always look, feel, and taste like something."
Monica A. Coleman
They bound themselves covenantally to the yet-to-be-known, in their growing expertise, to invite its gracious disclosure of deeper meaning. They bound themselves to that as-yet-unknown reality in taking up such a journey. What they actually found surprisingly transformed their half-understood inquiries as reality swept in and swept them up.”
Esther Lightcap Meek
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