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The year's Perkins Lecture series features several events on Tuesday, April 23, including Rev. Sandra Van Opstal as keynote for the annual Perkins Lecture at 7 p.m. in Upper Gwinn. The Perkins Center is celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2024.
Let me introduce the Korean concept of jeong as a counterpart to the Seattle Freeze. Although jeong has no English equivalent, it can be experienced and expressed outside of the Korean context. Jeong captures the tight interpersonal connection between people. It is the energy that underlies friendships. It can also describe the emotional bond between a parent and child.
After nine years as the president of both Roberts Wesleyan University and Northeastern Seminary near Rochester, New York, Dr. Deana L. Porterfield was inaugurated Feb. 23 as the 12th president of Seattle Pacific University in its 133-year history and its first female president. In an interview with Light + Life magazine a month after her inauguration, she emphasized that Seattle Pacific remains faithful to its Christian commitment even as the university attracts students from a variety of backgrounds and connects with its city.
After an extensive nationwide search, Dr. Kathy Lustyk has been named the next vice president for academic affairs and chief academic officer at Seattle Pacific University. Lustyk currently serves as vice chancellor and associate chief academic officer at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU), Prescott. She will assume her new role at SPU in the next few months.
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.