Seattle Pacific University will be a place that models grace-filled community and practices radical reconciliation.

We share a deep commitment at Seattle Pacific University: We want to treat each other with respect, care, kindness, and civility. We call this grace-filled community. In some ways, it's an unusual way for a university to do its work these days.

We are dangerously divided in our world today. Some of this dividedness comes in the form of barbed wire and concrete, some of it with razor-sharp language. We live in a broken world, a human community broken up by walls everywhere.

The great poet Robert Frost says, "Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down." This signature says that we are committed to reaching across the barriers of race and ethnicity; we are determined to address the fierce battles among ideologies, separation by class, and stratification by education. This means too we will be in conversation with other religions.

With this signature, we make the radical assertion that everyone is created in God's image, and as we live out this assertion, we believe we are contributing to a better world.