Creative Conversations Archive

Fall

• Clint Kelly – Scent
• John Glancy – Reading from Ken Foreman's The Fragile Champion
• Tom Trzyna – Bunny Goes to Hell
• Mary Kenagy – Reading from her short stories
• Jeffrey Overstreet – Through A Screen Darkly

Winter

• Kerry Dearborn – The Theology of George McDonald
• Rick Steele – I’ve Been Wondering: Conversations With Young Theologians
• Jeffrey Overstreet – Auralia’s Colors
• Doug Thorpe – Rapture of the Deep: Reflections on the Wild in Art, Wilderness and the Sacred
• Clint Kelly – Echo
• Priscilla Pope-Levison – Turn the Pulpit Loose

Spring

• Kim Gilnett – C.S. Lewis: A Personal Reflection
• Greg Wolfe – Intruding on the Timeless
• John Medina – Brain Rules
• Frank Spina – Faith of the Outsider
• Kathleen Braden – The Real Geography of America and Russia
• Jennifer Maier – Dark Alphabet

Autumn

• Katie Kresser – The Art and Thought of John La Farge: Representing the Real
• Nijay Gupta – “The Edge of the Sword and the Tree of Shame: Reading Joshua in Light of the Cross”
• Clint Kelly – White Water Preacher and the pros and cons of being a male romance writer
• SPU President Philip Eaton – Engaging the Culture, Changing the World: The Christian University in a Post-Christian World
• Michael Hamilton – “Something Big for God: the Last Temptation of Billy Graham.”

Winter

• Miriam Adeney – Kingdom Without Borders
• Jeffrey Overstreet – The Best Films of 2011: "Arguing with the Oscars”
• John Medina – Brain Rules for Baby
• Dave Leong – Street Signs
• Laura Sweat – “Jesus’ Teaching on Money, Politics, Religion, and the End of the World as We Know It”

Spring

• Greg Wolfe – Beauty Will Save the World
• Lingua, Heidi McElrath – “Being, Becoming — or, Student Writers Are Writers Too”
• Benjamin McFarland – “Built With Words: What Chemists and Poets Have in Common”
• Robert Drovdahl – Lectio: Called to Proper Worship—1 Corinthians 11
• Sharleen Kato/Mia Hays – Head, Heart, and Soul: 70 Years of Building Healthy and Sustainable Families
• Sara Koenig – Isn’t This Bathsheba

Autumn

• Suzanne Wolfe – The Pear Tree: A novel in progress on St. Augustine’s concubine
• Luke Reinsma – Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail: a slideshow
• Hannah Notess – The Un-Testimonies of Jesus Girls: True Tales of Growing up Evangelical
• Daniel Castelo – The Apathetic God
• Cher Edwards – “Social Justice and Christianity: Legacy or Contradiction?”

Winter

• Jeff Van Duzer – Why Business Matters to God: (And What Still Needs to be Fixed)
• Suzanne Wolfe; Hannah Notess; Mary Kenagy-Mitchell – The Spirit of Food
• Susan VanZanten – Mending a Tattered Faith: Devotions With Dickinson
• Doris Heritage and John Glancy – New books about legendary SPU coaches Ken Foreman and Les Habegger
• Jeff Keuss – Your Neighbor’s Hymnal

Spring

• Jeffrey Overstreet – The Ale Boy’s Feast
• Doug Thorpe – Wisdom Sings the World
• John Perkins – Let Justice Roll Down
• Rob Wall and David Nienhuis – “The Church’s Guide for Reading the Catholic Epistles”
• Brian Bantum – Redeeming Mulatto
• Andrew Ryder – “If You Want to Know Who We Are: Theatre Parody in Civilian Public Service”

Autumn

• Robert Clark – Dark Water: Art, Disaster, and Redemption in Florence
• Greg Wolfe and Suzanne Wolfe – Bless This House: Prayers for Families and Children
• Jack Levison – Filled With the Spirit
• SPU President Philip Eaton – “The Christian University: The Place Where World Change Begins”
• Stephen Newby – “Freedom and Spiritual Fantasies: Exploring the Music of African-American Composer Frederick Tillis”
• John Terrill – “Building to Last: Work and the New Creation”

Winter

• Chris Chaney – Can Rock Music Change the World? U2’s four Irishman are proving that it can
• Richard Scheuerman – Finding Chief Kamiakin: The Life and Legacy of a Remarkable Native-American Leader
• Tali Hairston – What Historic Christian Ministry Leaders Say About Reconciliation and Love
• Owen Ewald – What Is Beauty? Three answers from Socrates, and why they’re all wrong
• Clint Kelly – An (imaginary) interview with Abraham Lincoln’s son, and a preview of The Lincoln Anomaly
• Al Erisman – Joseph, the Accidental Executive: Thoughts on business and faith from the life of Joseph

Spring

• Jeffrey Overstreet – Raven’s Ladder, Avatar, and the subversive nature of parables
• Karen Smith – Winning the Math Wars: No Teacher Left Behind
• Ken Himma – “The News Ain’t All Good, Y’all: The Obligation to Help the Poor”
• Leslie Parrott – The First Drop of Rain: Poetry and insight inspired by Seattle’s landscape
• Tom Trzyna – Meeting God: Exploring the Origins of Britain’s St. George
• Eric Long – Over the River and Through the Woods: Why do deer travel long distances?

Autumn

• Bill Woodward – “Runs, Hits, and Eras”
• Tom Trzyna – Blessed Are the Pacifists
• Suzanne Wolfe – Unveiling
• Susan VanZanten – “How to Read Emily Dickinson”
• Kim Gilnett – “C.S. Lewis: A Personal Reflection”
• George Scranton – “Rereading the Bible Again (For the First Time)”

Winter

• Clint Kelly – Delicacy
• Jeffrey Overstreet – Cyndere’s Midnight
• Mike McDonald – Europe, a Tantalizing Romance
• Rob McKenna – Dying to Lead
• Cara Wall-Scheffler – “Mother-Infant Bonding”
• Claudia Grauf-Grounds – “Understanding Why Couples Fight — And What to Do About It”

Spring

• Jeff Keuss – Cinema Divinite: Religion, Theology, and the Bible in Film
• Les Parrott and Leslie Parrott – Trading Places
• Mary Kenagy-Mitchell – “The Guest”
• Katie Kresser – “Night Vision: Jacques Maritain and the Meaning of Art”
• Rob Wall – “Patterns for Ministry: the Book of Acts for Today”
• Tammy Van Dyken – “Singing the Gospel”

Summer

• Clint Kelly – Scent 
• John Glancy  –  Reading from Ken Foreman's The Fragile Champion
• Tom Trzyna  – Bunny Goes to Hell
• Mary Kenagy  – Reading from her short stories
• Jeffrey Overstreet – Through A Screen Darkly

Winter

• Kerry Dearborn – The Theology of George McDonald
• Rick Steele – I’ve Been Wondering: Conversations With Young Theologians
• Jeffrey Overstreet – Auralia’s Colors
• Doug Thorpe – Rapture of the Deep: Reflections on the Wild in Art, Wilderness and the Sacred
• Clint Kelly – Echo
• Priscilla Pope-Levison – Turn the Pulpit Loose

Spring

• Kim Gilnett –  C.S. Lewis: A Personal Reflection
• Greg Wolfe – Intruding on the Timeless
• John Medina – Brain Rules
• Frank Spina – Faith of the Outsider
• Kathleen Braden – The Real Geography of America and Russia
• Jennifer Maier – Dark Alphabet