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
I am so, so, so grateful to Tripp, Tony, Josh, and all the funders of this podcast. What a gift! I can only imagine all the creative energy, conversations, and time invested… thank you! Emergent Village and the entire emerging
It’s Inhabit time! As you may know the annual Inhabit Conference, is convened by Parish Collective, whose mission is to connect people to be the church in the neighborhood. Inhabit is a two-day event filled with stories, learning environments, music/art
This week author, Rev. Leanne Friesen – former pastor and current Executive Minister of the Canadian Baptists of Ontario & Quebec in Canada – saw her first book officially released… I am also very grateful to be her brother-in-law. Leanne
On the Significance of Religion for the SDGs: An Introduction, by Dr Christine Schliesser, is part of Routledge’s “Religion Matters” series. And it is available for free as an eBook on Amazon. I’m not sure whether this is permanently free
Some of the people of faith I’ve been collaborating with to activate our respective traditions to engage the SDGs for a more sustainable urban future for all everything alongside UN-Habitat and the World Economic Forum have just published a new
Here’s my top ten list of books from 2023. At the end of each year I reflect on books that I engaged this year that sparked imagination… this is my 24th such list. In some way, each of these books
Parish Collective’s Inhabit Conference is hands down my favorite event to participate in… sure I’m a bit biased but I think it’s normal to feel a special connection to one’s family and that’s how Inhabit feels to me… family. Our
This is my twenty-third top ten list of books I’ve generated. I just took a few moments to review my prior lists, and I have to say that I am so grateful for the wise humans who continue to offer
Dr. Paul Hoard – a colleague of mine at The Seattle School – and I will be presenting at this year’s Christian Association for Psychological Studies (CAPS) conference. The title of our break out session is: “Against You and You
Here’s my top ten list of books from 2021. Most years I try to pull together a list of the recently published books that have worked their way into my imagination in some important way. Surely more books could be
Spring trimester at The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology begins today. I will be serving as the guide along the course of three learning journeys. My three classes this trimester include: Integrative Project: Exploring the Future Intersections 3: Textual
Here’s my top ten list of books from 2020. Every year I pull together a list of the recently published books that have worked their way into my imagination in some important way. Surely more books could be included, especially
IVPress is making 20 books on race and justice from its catalogue of prophetic authors who share their stories, educate, and challenge. Learn from these books as you pursue justice, wholeness, and racial righteousness in your home, church, and community(ies).
Here’s my list of book picks for 2019. These books touched me in some meaningful way. I feel grateful for them, and to the people who birthed them into our world. These are some of the books I have found
Here are my top ten books for 2018. Since 2000 when I began my online journal, I have complied a list of the recently published books that have worked their way into my imagination in some important way, and shared
Here’s my top ten list of books for 2017. Each December I pull together a list of the recently published books that ignited something inside of me. Take my lists for what they are, a small collection of titles that
Here’s my top ten list of books of 2016. Most years I try to pull together a list of the recently published books that have worked their way into my imagination in some important way. Surely more books deserve to
Here’s my top ten list of books from 2015. Each December I pull together a list of the recently published books that have worked their way into my imagination in some important way. Surely more books deserve to be included.
Here’s my top ten list of books from 2014. Every December I pull together a list of the recently published books that have worked their way into my imagination in some important way. Surely more books deserve to be included.
Here’s my list of book picks for 2013, (once again have included a few books published the year before which I didn’t get to until 2013). So many more could have been included and I probably left out some that
Inhabit: The Art of Parish Renewal April 19-20, 2013, Seattle, WA The last two years the Inhabit Conference “Sold Out!” Hundreds of parish leaders gathered to celebrate the move toward a more embodied, participatory, and sustainable way of being the
Here’s my list of book picks form 2012 (have a listed a few books published last year which I didn’t get to until 2012). I am grateful for the women and men who birthed these books into being; your labor
If you know me at all, then you know how passionate I am about the mission of the grad school where I get to teach. You may have already heard that The Seattle School was recently awarded a grant to
Here’s my top ten list of books from 2011. Most years I try to pull together a list of the recently published books that have worked their way into my imagination in some important way. Surely more books could be
Here’s my top ten list of books from 2010. At the end of each year I compile a list of the recently published books that have worked their way into my imagination in some important way. Surely more books could
In just a couple of days I get to join one of the most important theological conversations that Emergent Village has hosted to date. The conversation will bring Dr. Musa Dube , Dr. Richard Twiss, and Dr. Colin Greene together
