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Seattle Pacific University

A collection of 12 posts

On Books & Writing

Do You Like Writing? Editing? Publishing? Need a Job?

Come work with me on this fantastic team of writers, editors, and designers. Seattle Pacific University is hiring a new Managing Editor for Response magazine. Make a difference. The print magazine has 58,000+ subscribers, and then there are the others who visit us online. Check out the magazine here.

The Auralia Thread

Launching Another Blog...

It's been a busy week. Not only am I spending about five hours every evening on the revisions to Raven's Ladder, the third volume in The Auralia Thread, but I helped launch a new blog this week. Yep, a new blog. Working as a contributing editor

Response Time!

At long last, the new issue of Response is here. Yes, this is what I do at my day job. All day, almost every day. I work with an amazing and inspiring team of writers, editors, photographers, and freelancers. It looks like a university marketing piece, but that's

Film Forum: Call + Response

Something's happening on the campus of Seattle Pacific University. Students are inspired about doing what they can to end slavery in the world around them. Yes, slavery. Slavery in India and Africa, sure, but also the slavery right under their noses here on American soil. A new abolitionist

The Auralia Thread

Beauty... Open to the Public!

Tomorrow, you are invited to visit Seattle Pacific University for a day of free lectures, open to the public, on the subject of BEAUTY. You can attend any that you like. Here's the program: The day will begin on Wednesday, October 15th, with a public keynote address, Beauty,

The Auralia Thread

Next Wednesday at Seattle Pacific University...

Next Wednesday, Seattle Pacific University throws the doors wide open to the public for a day of lectures on the subject of BEAUTY. I'll be speaking about beauty, beasts, and Cyndere's Midnight. And before that, I'll be speaking at this conference for high school

The Auralia Thread

Many, many thanks to my three audiences during yesterday's talk-a-thon!

I am dizzy and exhausted after yesterday's triathalon of speaking engagements... Many, many thanks to the hundreds of students, staff, faculty, and other guests who packed the Otto Miller lecture hall at Seattle Pacific University... twice... yesterday afternoon. I had a fantastic time passing along the lessons I&

On Books & Writing

Thursday Food for Thought: free lunchtime readings at Seattle Pacific University

Seattle Pacific University has begun hosting readings and booksignings at the SPU Library, and they're open to the public. I'm clipping from the calendar here, just so you know what's coming up... You are invited to bring a brownbag lunch to the Library to

On Movies & Media

Did Your Teachers Show Movies in Class?

Today, Seattle Pacific University instructor Christine Chaney is sitting down to discuss Krzysztof Kieslowski's The Decalogue with her English class. Bravo. I love it when literature professors expand the territory of their classroom exploration, encouraging students to apply interpretive skills to film. All too often, movies are treated

Seattle Pacific University

That's My University

The Seattle Times has more admiring words for Seattle Pacific University. I'm so pleased with my school. I'm sitting here, looking out over the campus, thrilled to be a part of it.

On Books & Writing

The Gospel According to Jim Wallis

The Washington Post on Jim Wallis... "And when we were done, that Bible was literally in shreds. It was falling apart in my hands. It was a Bible full of holes. I would take it out to preach and say, 'Brothers and sisters, this is our American Bible.

Happy Akemi Day!

One of my youngest friends, Akemi Takashi, daughter of my former coworker and dear friend Kathy Takahashi, is a very big deal today in The Seattle Post-Intelligencer. If you're a filmmaker looking for a good, inspiring story, you won't find a more engaging youngster than Akemi.