About

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Hi, I’m glad you’re here.

Thank you for taking a few moments to explore this corner of my life and work. My hope is that you’ll find ideas that enlarge your imagination, practices that deepen your presence, and companions for your own journey.

The quest of my life is simple to say and lifelong to live: to discover and practice faithful presence.

By faithful presence, I mean learning to live more deeply rooted in love—love of G-d, neighbor, self, stranger, enemy, place, beauty, and the whole community of creation. I have come to believe that this is how we participate in G-d’s Shalom: the flourishing of all people and everything.

I cannot pretend to know the fullness of Shalom. I have only glimpsed enough of it for my imagination to be captured. In some streams of the Jewish tradition, shalom is understood not merely as peace, but as something of the very inner life of G-d. That vision continues to draw me. If Shalom reflects the “being” of G-d, then it is both the deepest reality I know and a mystery that forever exceeds my understanding.

Everything I do grows out of that longing.

Whether teaching graduate students, accompanying leaders, speaking with organizations, writing, facilitating spiritual retreats, or collaborating with communities around the world, my work is ultimately about helping people and communities become more attentive to what is real—and more able to participate in G-d’s reconciling work in their own place.

I often describe my vocation as searching for the least inadequate language for speaking about G-d and our experience of reality. That search has led me into conversations at the intersection of theology, spirituality, psychology, ecology, urban/transect life, systems change, and community formation. It has also convinced me that the crises of our age—ecological, social, political, spiritual, and technological—are not separate problems but deeply interconnected invitations to become more fully human together.

My life has been shaped by many places and communities. I was raised on the Canadian prairies within the Anabaptist & evangelical traditions and have called Cascadia home since 1996 when I cultivated a locale community of faith & practice. Today I live in the Lake Hills neighborhood of Bellevue, Washington, where I teach at The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology and collaborate with churches, nonprofits, cities, and international networks seeking more just, compassionate, and sustainable futures.

Maybe more than anything, I consider myself a learner.

The pages of this website are an invitation into the conversations, friendships, practices, and communities that continue to shape me. They are not offered as conclusions, but as companions for the journey. I hope they encourage you to notice more deeply, love more generously, imagine more courageously, and discover fresh ways of participating in G-d’s Shalom where you live.

If something here resonates with your own work or longing, I’d be delighted to continue the conversation. My pronouns are he/they, though I gladly respond to them, ze/hir, or xe/xem.

We’re all in this together.

Peace, dwight

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A little more biographical info…

• Earned a Doctor of Ministry with an emphasis in Semiotics & Leadership in an Emerging Culture at George Fox University under the mentorship of Leonard Sweet, with Kent Yinger as his dissertation adviser.  Dwight’s dissertation explored a relational hermeneutic toward connective church structures & leadership.
• Graduated with a M.A.R. from Trinity International University where he was mentored by Robert E. Coleman, while Dwight’s thesis adviser was Michael Bullmore. His thesis explored Biblical understandings and images of Christian community.
• Dwight was ordained by the Christian & Missionary Alliance in June of 1992, until surrendering his ordination credentials because of this tradition’s commitment to exclude women and queer leaders from ordained ministry.
• His theology, practice, and background is Anabaptist, with a liturgical impulse, an emergent missional conversational practice, deeply rooted within place, with a healthy dash of apophatic mysticism.
• Graduated with a B.B.S. from Ambrose University College now located in Calgary, 1990.
• Attended Capernwray Hall in England, competing a one year certificate in Biblical studies.

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