Seattle Pacific University will be a place that embraces the Christian story, becoming biblically and theologically educated.

The great Jewish novelist Chaim Potok once said on our campus that we live in a world of colliding stories. That is an apt metaphor for postmodernism. One of the fierce contentions of our contemporary world, and indeed of today's university, is that there is no big, overarching story that can help make sense of it all.

   Here is where our vision boldly engages the culture. In a world of colliding stories, we embrace the Christian story. One of our strong signatures is to make the case for the big story of the gospel. That’s the good news we have to offer.

   In the language of the Scriptures, we want to make the case for the hope we find within us, and we will do so with courtesy and kindness and respect for others. We commit ourselves to the hard work, the discipline, of becoming biblically and theologically educated. We seek to take this growing maturity into all of the disciplines of the University, into our worship, and into our work.

   In a day of growing biblical and theological illiteracy, we think this commitment to growth, for faculty, staff, students, trustees, alumni, is critical if we are going to embrace the Christian story and engage the culture with good news.