Annual Rhythms

During Convocation we officially invite the incoming class into our community and enter the new academic year together by joining in a liturgy of dedication and the celebration of Holy Communion. Afterwards, we share food and fellowship as a new community with a community cookout.

The Stanley Grenz Lecture Series is offered in honor of former Professor Stanley Grenz, a prolific Christian scholar with a pastoral heart and deep intellectual presence. In his memory, each year The Seattle School hosts theological leaders and thinkers to advance theological discourse.

The Day of Scholarship encourages creativity, conversation, and collaboration in research and scholarship across The Seattle School. This event connects faculty, staff, students, and alumni, facilitates dialogue and helps community members discover a variety of projects while also strengthening a collective culture of generosity, development, and advancement.

The Seattle School hosts a series of workshops for all upcoming graduates that begins the process of orienting them to life post-graduate school. During this time, graduates have the opportunity to interact with each other, those specifically in their degree program and the faculty therein, and participate in a variety of practical workshops as they anticipate the coming endings and new beginnings, including ever present and pressing job-search.

Graduate Friday is a day of events celebrating the end of the academic year and honoring our graduating students’ accomplishments. The Graduates’ Breakfast is a celebratory catered meal marking the final formal opportunity to gather with other upcoming graduates, faculty, and staff in a time of sharing food, memories, and words of gratitude and hope as we bring closure to our time together at The Seattle School. The Integrative Project Symposium features the culminating work of students in our Master of Arts in Theology & Culture program. The Seattle School’s La Danse Award is an annual rhythm in which we celebrate the community we create together, and honor individuals who have marked our community in particular ways. And finally, the day culminates in an Open House which is designed for friends and family of graduates, alumni, and the broader community to tour the school and meet some of the staff and faculty that have helped graduates along their journeys at The Seattle School.