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In Everybody, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins takes the time-honored medieval morality play, Everyman, and updates it for a modern world.
At the end of life, Death is sent to collect Everybody (randomly selected from the cast at each performance), who isn’t really ready to go. Now, with the “help” of some friends, Everybody journeys down a road toward the greatest mystery of all ...
Everybody, a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize, is a theatrical high-wire act played without a net. Just like life.
More information on the SPU Theatre Department website.
While Autumn, Winter, and Spring quarters last about 10 weeks at Seattle Pacific, Summer Sessions are two to eight weeks long — allowing you to earn credits during the summer, take charge of your degree, and graduate sooner.
Check out the 2023 Summer Sessions for undergraduates and graduates.
Welcome to the SPU Voices podcast, where we tell personal stories with universal impact. Our guest today is Peter Choi. He came to SPU as an international student from Korea to study journalism. His career took off immediately after graduation, and he was working as an international correspondent for the Korean National News during the pandemic, which left Peter and his new wife quarantining on opposite sides of the globe. They were recently reunited when Peter became a local multimedia reporter for KXLY in Spokane.
For 21 years, the Erickson conference has showcased the outstanding research and design contributions students are making in the fields of biology, biochemistry, chemistry, computer science, engineering, health and human performance, mathematics, physics, and sociology.
Students' presentations range from single quarter classroom-based original research projects to summative multi-year independent research programs and engineering design projects.
The Erickson Conference will be held in person on Friday, May 5, 2023. The Erickson Committee looks forward to hearing about the work our students have done, even in these challenging times. We also are excited to welcome our keynote speaker, Dr. Gretchen Huizinga, a research fellow at AI and Faith.
Sponsored by the Center for Faithful Business at Seattle Pacific University, this year's Bruce Kennedy Ethical Leadership Lecture will be, " Wisdom and Leadership," presented by Dr. Uli Chi, with Brad Tilden responding. The lecture is Wednesday, May 3, 7–8:30 p.m. in Upper Gwinn Commons on the SPU campus.
Dr. Uli Chi has spent his life practicing leadership at the intersection of for-profit and non-profit businesses, the theological academy, and the local church. He is an award-winning technological entrepreneur who founded a software company that develops 3-D virtual reality software that simplifies complex decision-making processes for consumers and businesses. Uli currently serves as Board Chair of the Virginia Mason Franciscan Health System in the Pacific Northwest, and Vice Chair of the De Pree Center for Leadership at Fuller Seminary in Pasadena. Uli has also served as Chair of Regent College’s Board of Governors, and Chair of the Executive Committee for the Center for Integrity in Business (now Center for Faithful Business) at Seattle Pacific University.
Responding to this year's lecture is Brad Tilden. An American business executive, Brad is the chairman of Alaska Air Group, the parent company of Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air. Before becoming the company's CEO in 2012, Tilden served as Alaska Airlines' president, and Alaska Air Group's chief financial officer prior to that.
The event is free, but registration is required.
Join the School of Theology for a special event on Tuesday, May 2, highlighting faculty authors and their recent books:
AI, Faith, and the Future: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Making Christianity Manly Again: Mark Driscoll, Mars Hill Church
American Evangelicalism; Workshop of the Holy Spirit: An Invitation to Theological Education
The Radiance of God: Christian Doctrine through the Image of Divine Light.
The SPU Art Department is pleased to kick off its 2023 Senior Exhibition series with our Photography/Studio Art Exhibition, resid[u]e. This culmination of study features capstone works by students Patricia Fong, Kayla Ketchum, Taylor Schmidt and Jordan Hayward.
Spanning media including photography, printmaking, drawing, video, sculpture and installation, the exhibition represents the range of skills achieved by these students in the last four years. More than this, works in the exhibition explore themes such as memory, lament, joy and embodiment, inviting us all to consider more deeply what it means to be human.
The exhibit is in the Seattle Pacific Art Center gallery located at 3 West Cremona through Friday, April 28.
SPU's John Perkins Center is hosting Dr. Jemar Tisby and Rev. Dominique Gilliard for the 2023 Perkins Lecture series.
Tisby speaks nationwide on topics of racial justice, U.S. history, and Christianity. He is the author of The New York Times’ bestseller, The Color of Compromise: The Truth About the American Church's Complicity in Racism and How to Fight Racism: Courageous Christianity and the Journey toward Racial Justice.
Gilliard is the author of Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice that Restores, and he was named Outreach magazine’s 2019 Social Issues Resource of the Year. His latest book, Subversive Witness: Scripture’s Call to Leverage Privilege, won Englewood Review of Books 2021 Book of the Year Award.
A few Christians in the 19th century — particularly those connected with Oberlin College — acted boldly and courageously to end slavery and promote racial equality. Those who did so grounded their activism on Holiness Theology and devotional practices derived from the Wesleyan tradition. The Walls Lecture this year will be a panel presentation given by four professors who have been engaged in a scholarly project known as the “Dialogue on Race and Faith.” The goal of the project has been to study this historical movement and to draw out implications for the Christian church today.
Walls Lecture 2023
For its 100th anniversary, the SPU Music Department singers and musicians will join the Northwest Symphony Orchestra and ChoralSounds Northwest for a special musical collaboration. The evening features more than 100 musicians on stage performing works by Mendelssohn, Dvorak and the world premiere of “A Psalm for the Voiceless” by Joshua A. Idio.
Dr. Christopher Jones ’94 hopes the families in his medical practice never need to ask: “Is my kid sick enough that I should pay for a doctor’s visit?” Medical director of HopeCentral, a nonprofit health center, he and his team have adapted the concept of concierge medicine to a diverse Seattle neighborhood.
Assistant Professor of Philosophy Leland Saunders earned a $10,100 Graves Award in Humanities for his research project, “The Structure of Moral Judgement: Philosophical Perspectives.” His research responds to recent arguments that human beings’ concepts of morality are just a quirk of evolution and don't connect to anything deeper.