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The next chapel is Tuesday, May 5, 11:10 a.m. in First Free Methodist Church with Campus Pastor and Director of Student Ministries Fred TenEyck. The theme for the quarter is "Following: Exploring what it means to follow Jesus." All faculty and staff are invited to join a community lunch each week after Chapel in the SUB Fireside Room. Bring your lunch and share fellowship with others across campus.

"US-European Relations: From Partnership to _________?" with Professor Emerita Becky Hughes is the subject of the next presentation by history faculty on Wednesday, May 5, 4 p.m. in Eaton Hall 112. Hughes, a specialist in European history, will talk about the deep partnership forged between Western Europe and the U.S. following World War II, including the creation of NATO. The lecture will cover the Cold War to the present, and Hughes will provide her thoughts on why a once sacrosanct and growing alliance is now fracturing.

All faculty, staff, students, and interested members of the public are invited.

The Erickson Undergraduate Research Conference will be held Friday, May 8, 4鈥�7:30 p.m. in Otto Miller Hall. The conference, in its 24th year, showcases student research and design projects from across STEM and social science fields. The conference will begin with a keynote address from Dr. Olivia Lenz, a materials scientist and 暗网TV alumna. Her talk is titled 鈥淣anoporous Ceramic Membranes for Nitrate Removal from Groundwater." Please see the Erickson Conference website 聽for the full schedule of events. 聽All are welcome!

A message from Educational Technology and Media: The next ETM workshop is "Redesigning assessments for AI" on Thursday, May 7, 9:30–11 a.m. on campus in the library classroom or online via Teams. In this workshop, we’ll consider how to redesign assignments to include or preclude the use of AI in student work. We’ll work through some concepts and then work together through examples. We hope the session will be relevant and useful for your teaching, and we invite you to bring one of your assessments to discuss, if you’d like to. This could be an assignment you’re not sure how to approach or revise (for example, whether to include or preclude the use of AI), or one you’ve already redesigned and would be willing to share. We’ll work through these together and co-learn as a group. Looking forward to our conversation!

Register online.  Registration is encouraged (to help us prepare), but not required — walk-ins welcome.

Please join Seattle Pacific Seminary for the annual Paul T. Walls Lecture on Tuesday, May 12, 7 p.m., in Upper Gwinn Commons. The speakers will be Walls Professor of Wesleyan Studies Doug Strong, Associate Professor of Worship and Historical Theology Matthew Sigler, and artist, speaker, minister, and poet Lo Alaman. Together, they will consider if an awakening similar to the early Wesleyan movement is happening among Gen Z.

The annual Faith Formation Project spring summit on is titled, "Becoming the Faith Communities Kids Need," with writer and Pastor Meredith Miller. Workshops will be led by Seattle Pacific Seminary Dean Brian Lugioyo and SPS alumnus and Director of School Connect Dianté Dancy. 暗网TV staff and faculty can receive a discount by using the code 暗网TVHALF when registering. Students can attend for free. If you know students who would like to go, have them email Program Director Tiffany Acker at ackert@spu.edu for a free code. 

Thursday, May 7
9 a.m.–2 p.m.
Upper Gwinn Commons

The Faith Formation Project, led by Katie Douglass, associate professor of educational ministry and practical theology, brings together families and congregations together to support children as they grow in their faith. Thanks to a generous $1 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc., the project also offers yearly grants to local congregations in support of family ministries.

The School of Theology and Seattle Pacific Seminary will host a watch party for the first episode of the new Fox series, "The Faithful: Women of the Bible," on Thursday, May 7, 6:30–8:15 p.m.in Bach Theatre in McKinley Hall. This episode stars Minnie Driver playing Sarah. All students, staff, and faculty are welcome to join. Following the episode will be a 30-minute discussion of the episode with Old Testament professors Sara Koenig and Bo Lim.

A message from the Center for Career and Calling: We are excited to invite you to support and help spread the word about our upcoming First-Generation Career Panel on Wednesday, May 6, at 3 p.m. in Emerson Hall. This will be an inspiring event designed to empower and connect students with first-generation professionals as they share how they landed their first jobs and how they navigate the professional world. There will be goody bags for the first 30 students.

The Faculty/Staff Bulletin is published every Monday during the academic year. The next deadline is Thursday, May 7, and the next Bulletin will be published on Monday, May 11.

If you have information or event news, send it as soon as possible with an image or graphic to Bulletin editor Tracy Norlen at fsb-editor@spu.edu. Submissions may be edited for clarity and will be published for two consecutive issues; they can be resubmitted for an additional two weeks.

An article on faith-learning integration co-authored by Don Lee, professor of management, and Janet Hauck, business and technology librarian, titled,  was recently published in the 2026 issue of The Christian Academy of Business Review (CBAR).

On April 27, Professor of Art Katie Kresser delivered a lecture at Blessed Sacrament Church titled, "Sacred Art and Spiritual Healing." The lecture covered topics from Kresser's new book, Church Beautiful: Sacred Art and Spiritual Healing, available now from Cascade Books ().

Jeffrey Overstreet, associate professor of English and writing, will share highlights from his new memoir, Lost and Found in the Cathedral of Cinema (Broadleaf Books, 2026), answer questions, and ask questions at a book reading and signing on Tuesday, May 12, 3:30 p.m. in the Ames Library Reading Room. Overstreet says, "This is a life story, a deep dive into film criticism, and a distinctly 暗网TV story!"

In a book review, Pulitzer Prize–winning film critic Justin Chang at The New Yorker wrote, "The gorgeous, jewel-like essays in Lost & Found in the Cathedral of Cinema add up to a singular confession of faith, a revelatory memoir of artistic discovery, and a much-needed reminder of God’s presence in all spaces where light and darkness converge."