Just Released

• Engaging the Culture, Changing the World: The Christian University in a Post-Christian World, Philip W. Eaton, InterVarsity Press, 2011. A new book by President Eaton that makes the case for the Christian university as a place where graduates are equipped to engage a post-Christian culture – so that all of God's children might flourish.

President Eaton in the Press

• Seattle Pacific president to step down in July, The Seattle Times, September 20, 2011.
• Put Down the Instant Coffee: Economist Warns of Depression Mindset, The seattlepi.com quotes Eaton in this write-up about SPU's 13th Annual Downtown Business Breakfast featuring keynote speaker economist Robert J. Shiller.
• Celebrating 90th Birthday, Long-ago Student Gets SPU Degree, The Seattle Times, April 19, 2009, President Eaton's presentation of an honorary degree to Kimiko Nagaoka Mukai, a Japanese American whose Seattle Pacific education was cut short in 1942 when she was ordered into an internment camp.
• This Classic Love Story Will Long Endure, The Seattle Times, July 14, 2007, remembering the late Professor Emerita Winifred Weter and her generous gift to Seattle Pacific University.
• Seattle Pacific University Embraces a New Global Awareness, The Seattle Times, February 3, 2007, front-page story about SPU's vision to engage the culture and change the world.

[More in the Press]

Response

• Why Good Science Matters to a Christian University, Winter 2012
• Beyond the Ivory Tower, Autumn 2011
• Distinctively Urban, Spring 2011
• A Healing Way, Autumn 2010
• It's Not That Easy, Spring 2010
• The Biblical Imagination and the Economy, Spring 2009
• Something Surely Doesn't Love a Wall, Winter 2009
• Anticipation, Spring 2008
• Going Global, Autumn 2007
• Embracing the Christian Story, Spring 2007

[More Response]

Soapbox

• "A Profoundly Different Kind of Community," Soapbox, October 2006
• “How Do We Pass Along a Worldview to Someone Else?”, Soapbox, March 2005

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Guest Editorials

• Don't Backslide on Higher Education, joint editorial, The Seattle Times, December 1, 2008.
• Debunking 'The Code',The Seattle Times, June 18, 2006.
• Leadership: Helping Others Flourish, Christian Management Report magazine, April 2006.
• Reclaiming the Soul of the University,The Seattle Times, May 16, 2005.
• Please Join My Revolution,The Seattle Times, November 4, 2003.
• Let’s Not Declare ‘Character’ Dead Just Yet, Puget Sound Business Journal, October 4, 2002.

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State of the University Addresses

• Oh, the Places We've Been, the Places We'll Go, September 21, 2011
• The Crisis of Value and Our Flourishing University, September 22, 2010
• A Time to Plant, A Time to Harvest, September 23, 2009
• A Strategy for Strength, September 24, 2008
• Becoming a People of Promise, September 19, 2007
• It’s Like Your First Sip of the Morning Latte, September 20, 2006     Audio Version  Video Version
• Building on Ancient Foundations, September 21, 2005

[More State of the University Addresses]

Opening Convocation Addresses

• The Idea of the Christian University, Part II: The Place Where World Change Begins, September 29, 2009
• The Idea of the Christian University: Embracing the Christian Story in a World of Colliding Maps, September 30, 2008
• The Dawn of an Expected New Day, September 25, 2007
• Embracing The Christian Story, While at the Same Time..., September 26, 2006
• What We Need Now Is a Conversion of the Imagination, September 27, 2005

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Business Breakfast Addresses

• 2009, President Eaton gives an address titled The Economy, The University, and a New Kind of Human Flourishing prior to keynote speaker Robert J.Shiller's address.
• 2007 Downtown Business Breakfast, President Eaton introduces keynote speaker Dr. Vali Nasr, one of the world's leading voices on Middle East politics and the history of Islam, April 10, 2007.
• 2006, President Eaton introduces keynote speaker David McCullough, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and outstanding American historian, April 25, 2006.
• 2005 Downtown Business Breakfast, President Eaton introduces keynote speaker Michael Useem, professor of management and director of the Center for Leadership and Change Management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, April 12, 2005.

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Other Speeches, Articles, and Appearances

• “The Dawn of an Expected New Day: Hope and the Christian University,” President’s Homecoming Luncheon, January 26, 2008.
• "There's a Great Big World Out There," President's Homecoming Luncheon, February 3, 2007.

• "Reflections for the American Chamber of Commerce of China," speech given in Beijing, China, November 16, 2006.
•  "It's Not About Winning an Argument, It's About Living in the Story," Speech given at Seattle Pacific University President's Chapel, May 23, 2006.
•  “Can a University Change the World?” Address given at the President’s Homecoming Luncheon, January 28, 2006.
• “Gentle Verses in the Midst of Horror,” Address to the Brandywine Leadership Forum, November 6, 2004.
•  “College and Character.” Interview on 710 KIRO radio’s “The Dave Ross Show,” October 3, 2002. For a full hour, President Eaton and talk show host Dave Ross discussed issues ranging from character in education to SPU’s mission of “engaging the culture, changing the world."
• "Seeing Through New Glasses: Educating the Next Generation in a Changed World,” Speech to Downtown Seattle Rotary Club, October 31, 2001.

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[Memos to the Seattle Pacific Community]

For information about scheduling President Eaton for speaking engagements, or to request permission to reprint or reuse the above articles/speeches, please contact Karen Jacobsen, executive assistant to the president, at 206- 281-2114, or kjacob@spu.edu.