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FEATURED CONTENT FROM SSU ALUMNI & STAFF ON THE INTERSECTION OF THEOLOGY, PEACEMAKING & THE ARTS.


Safi Kaskas - SSU's Newest Honorary Doctorate
Safi Kaskas was awarded with a Doctor of Divinity (honoris causa) at St. Stephen's University, NB Canada - 04-30-2025. Safi also received SSU's prestigious "Peace & Justice Legacy Award." Present with him were his wife, Eman, and daughter, Maha.

Steve Schallert
May 13


Guard the Image of Humanity: A contemplative approach to healing sociopolitical division
Guard the image of humanity, for it is the manifest image of God. Look for it in your neighbour. Search for it. Seek it. For it is found even in your enemy.

Dean Johnston
Apr 25


The Beatitudes: A Responsive Prayer.
We’ve been praying the Beatitudes together as the closing benediction to our gatherings as a responsive prayer, and here is the text we use.

Marc Alan Schelske
Mar 18


Listening to My Life
Somehow, I am climbing over logical barriers, sneaking past the reasonable, and wandering into the shockingly possible.

Katie Kroeker
Feb 24


Come & See. Go & Tell.
Last week, I visited Palestine as part of Sabeel’s solidarity pilgrimage and conference. Sabeel is a Palestinian liberation theological ...
Michael McDougle
Jan 22
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