CEIE Podcasts Center for Ecumenical and Interreligious Engagement at Seattle University

In this podcast, CEIE Assistant Director Dr. Kara Markell speaks with Mary DeJong - urban naturalist, eco-spiritual practitioner, and place-based pilgrimage guide - about cultivating our wild soul with sacred stories and deep connection to the earth. Take a listen!

In this podcast, CEIE Assistant Director Rev. Dr. Kara Markell speaks with Rev. Dr. John Phillip Newell, a Celtic theologian as well as a teacher and author of spirituality. He is the author of the book, "Sacred Earth Sacred Soul". Take a listen now!

CEIE Director and Spehar-Halligan Professor Dr. Michael Trice spoke with Seattle University Professor Dr. Greg Magnan about systems and the people in them.Find more at our web-platform:CEIE - www.seattleu.edu/ceie/Interfaith Observer - www.theinterfaithobserver.orgReligica Theolab - www.religica.org

Mia Baumgartner, Manager of Spiritual Care & Wellbeing, and the Joy in the Workplace Project at University of WashingtonMedical Center speaks with Spehar-Halligan Professor and CEIE Director, Michael Trice, about the book -Compassionomics: The Revolutionary Scientific Evidence That Caring Makes a Difference by Stephen Trzeciak and Anthony Mazzarelli. Mia and Michael discuss compassion as more than empathy.Compassion is an art form, a practice, and leads to a longer and healthier life. It also helps with depression, anxiety and isolation. Take a listen.

Dr. Amir Hussain is Chair and Professor of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, where he teaches courses on religion. His own particular speciality is the studyof Islam, focusing on contemporary Muslim societies in North America. He is also the President of the American Academy of Religion, and this brings us to the conversation today:This year, a state college, New College in Sarasota, Florida came under the microscope ofFlorida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has an eye on becoming the next president of the United States, and who has a plan to transform New College, which is known as progressive and describes itself as “a community of free thinkers.”On Jan. 31, New College’s president Patricia Okker was ousted, and Gov. DeSantis unveiled his higher education policies — to further weaken faculty tenure protections, eliminate diversity and equity programsand mandate Western civilization courses, according to the New York Times.In response, on February 9th the reputable American Council of LearnedSocieties released a statement that, to our mind, drew a line in the sand, noting New College as another glaring example of an attack on the principles of academic freedom and faculty governance. The claim by Florida administration of “indoctrination” andthe changes to come at New College at the hands of the state, invite a conversation about the role of the university, and the shared responsibility to protect critical thinking, freedom of speech and informed debate. Take a Listen.

Steen Halling, PhD, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychology at Seattle University, brings over four decades of study on the psychology of forgiveness. In this podcast, Center Director Michael Reid Trice PhD asks Dr. Halling about his timely book, titled: The Lived Experience of Forgiveness: Phenomenological and Psychological Perspectives. Is forgiveness necessary? Does it require slowing down? Is it a kind of amnesty or is it something else? It is to be "fully attentive." Listen and find out why.