Writing

1. We treat scripture as a conversation instead of ideology Read more about Core Values 5: Transcendence Through Affection

Donald Schell reflects theologically on his trip through the Grand Canyon this summer in part 2 of this 2 part article. Read more about Grand Canyon: Rim to Rim (part 2)

Donald Schell reflects theologically on his trip through the Grand Canyon this summer in part 1 of this 2 part article. Read more about Grand Canyon: Rim to Rim (part 1)

I wanted to write about a practice of gratitude, a new daily routine that I’m hoping to make as habitual as flossing my teeth. No, more than wanted to, I guess I am beginning to write about it. I’ll get to the problem in a moment. Read more about The Practice of "Thank You"

1. We treat scripture as a conversation instead of ideology
2. We realize tradition as creative instead of nostalgic
3. We hold reason as balance instead of inevitability
4. We pursue evangelism using desire instead of shame
5. We realize transcendence through affection instead of fear

In the fourth century Gregory of Nyssa wrote that our infinite desire is the way humans are most like God. Gregory was the outstanding innovative thinker of his age, and the last systematic theologian until Thomas Aquinas; Read more about Core Values 4: Evangelism Using Desire

1. We treat scripture as a conversation instead of ideology
2. We realize tradition as creative instead of nostalgic
3. We hold reason as balance instead of inevitability Read more about Core Values 3: Reason as Balance

1. We treat scripture as a conversation instead of ideology
2. We realize tradition as creative instead of nostalgic
3. We hold reason as balance instead of inevitability Read more about Core Values 2: Tradition as Creative Expression

All Saints Company took form to support churches’ worship and common life in our time. We began work at Yale University in 1974, and founded St Gregory of Nyssa Church in 1978. Read more about Core Values 1: Scripture as Conversation

I’m inviting you to an important conversation. For two years since leaving the Rectorship of St Gregory Nyssen, San Francisco, I have traveled to scores of other Sunday services. Everywhere I encountered courteous welcome, and sometimes warm interest in what St Gregory’s Church does. Read more about What’s all this for?

Sometimes when we’re planning something as familiar as a liturgy, clergy and musicians get impatient to ‘get it done.’ And so we begin without first asking questions of principle or reminding ourselves of why we’re doing what we’re doing, in other words we skip the ‘first things first’ that ‘prin Read more about Horse Before the Cart?

Christians have taught for centuries that our Sacraments are Signs. Different churches have counted different numbers of Sacraments; but scholars agree that the Eucharist is preeminently Jesus’ own Sign. So his Church must hold his Sign up clearly. Read more about Welcoming the Stranger