
A series of panel discussions examining Darwin’s influence in a variety of fields. Del McHenry explores Darwin’s life and work; Rod Stiling discusses On the Origin of Species; Patrick McDonald speaks “On the Friendship of Darwin, Design, and Creation.”
Time: 1 p.m.
Cost: Free
Location: Demaray 150
Contact: 206-281-2395

Stepehn Michael Newby, director of University Ministries and the Center for Worship at Seattle Pacific, considers “Freedom and Spiritual Fantasies: Exploring the Music of African-American Composer Frederick Tillis.”
Time: 12:30 p.m.
Cost: Free
Location: Library Reading Room, main floor
Contact: 206-281-2228

A series examining Darwin’s influence in a variety of fields. Christine Chaney discusses “Lady Novelists, Evolution, and the ‘Natural History’ of Real Life”; Jeff Keuss explores “Thomas a’ Kempis and Darwin: Death, Life and Evolution in Victorian Theology.”
Time: 1 p.m.
Cost: Free
Location: Demaray 150
Contact: 206-281-2395

John Chalberg explores G. K. Chesterton’s assessment of Charles Darwin, and the relationship between science and faith.
Time: 7–9 p.m.
Cost: Free
Location: Demaray 150
Contact: 206-281-2395

The final in a series examining Darwin’s influence in a variety of fields. Cara Wall-Scheffler talks on “The lessons of ‘the Hobbit’ Homo floresiensis”; Baine Craft discusses evolutionary psychology: the role of comparative psychology; and Mícheál Roe speaks on “Emergence,” higher animal intelligence, and worldviews.
Time: 1 p.m.
Cost: Free
Location: Demaray 150
Contact: 206-281-2395

John Terrill, director for the Center for Integrity in Business at SPU’s School of Business and Economics, talks about “Building to Last: Work and the New Creation.”
Time: 12:30 p.m.
Cost: Free
Location: Library Reading Room, main floor
Contact: 206-281-2228

The community is invited to enjoy a student-sponsored Christmas celebration that includes carolers, food, and a presentation of the Christmas story.
Time: 7–11 p.m.
Cost: Free
Location: Tiffany Loop
Contact: 206-281-2459
Students return to SPU for Winter Quarter after Christmas break.
Don't miss this entertaining, thought-provoking, and immeasurably practical seminar with two of America's leading relationship experts — SPU's own professor of psychology Les Parrott and marriage and family therapist Leslie Parrott.
Time: 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Cost: $89 per couple, if registered by December 5. $125 per couple, starting December 6.
Register here.
Location: Upper Gwinn Commons
Contact: 206-281-2759
Come celebrate the legacy of SPU with old friends and family.
Location: SPU campus
Contact: 206-281-ALUM (Homecoming); 206-281-2831 (Family Weekend)
SPU honors the lives and works of outstanding alumnae.
Time: 9:30 a.m.
Cost: Free
Location: First Free Methodist Church
Contact: 206-281-ALUM
Honoring Alumnus of the Year and the Medallion Award recipients.
Time: 11:30 a.m.
Cost: $15; Reservations required
Location: Upper Gwinn Commons
Contact: 206-281-ALUM