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Passion, Eros, and Resurrection
Interview with Donald Schell: Risking Song
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Passion, Eros, and Resurrection

article by Donald Schell, Apr 10, 2013

“My Eros is crucified.”

Still now, forty-five years later, I remember how startled I was when I first read that use of “Eros” in Ignatius of Antioch’s early Second Century letters. I was just beginning seminary and was searching hard for something to replace the Atonement-by-Vicarious-Suffering-Evangelicalism that I’d grown up with. Would Ignatius’s use of THAT word “Eros” for a loving God point to another way of understanding Jesus’ cross and resurrection? Read more about Passion, Eros, and Resurrection

Interview with Donald Schell: Risking Song

article by Mary Stein, Mar 18, 2013

I first met Donald Schell on the mat of the dojo on Clement Street in San Francisco where we both began practicing aikido almost thirty years ago. As the years went by, I heard about his work as a rector in a local Episcopal church on Gough Street, and then about the exciting work of building St. Gregory of Nyssa, on Potrero Hill, an extraordinary church designed to provide space for the congregation to move and dance and sing during the service, with portraits of dancing saints Read more about Interview with Donald Schell: Risking Song