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A Question of Timing

A Question of Timing

March 16, 2015 · by Greg Grooms · in Miscellaneous

“And he strictly charged them to tell no one about him.” Mark 8:30 “But he remained silent and made no answer. Again the high priest asked him, “Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?” And Jesus said, “I…

Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics by Ross Douthat

Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics by Ross Douthat

May 31, 2012 · by Greg Grooms · in Arts & Culture, Books

In Prague there stands a monument to an odd couple: Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler. Tycho, the Catholic Dane—by far the more colorful of the two– dabbled in alchemy, wore a prosthetic nose as a result of a wound he received in a duel, and died as a result of a rather infamous drinking binge. In contrast Kepler–the German, Protestant mathematician–was rather dull.

This unlikely pair was brought together by a clash of paradigms. Tycho championed a variation of the old geocentric Ptolemaic view of the universe, while Kepler not only championed the heliocentric Copernican view, he corrected some of its worst errors. Tycho’s strength was in his observations, which he, thankfully, documented quite carefully. But it was Kepler’s mathematical skill and genius at theorizing that enabled him to make sense not only of Tycho’s notes but of the heavens.

Lent, Ash Wednesday, and All Saints #3

March 7, 2011 · by Tim Frickenschmidt · in Church Calendar

How does the ancient liturgical practice of following the church calendar help us consciously step into the gospel, conforming us to Jesus and the shape and purpose of his life? I raised this question in my last blog, giving a…

Lent, Ash Wednesday, and All Saints #2

March 7, 2011 · by Tim Frickenschmidt · in Church Calendar, Ministry

To participate well in an Ash Wednesday service one has to understand the season of Lent. To understand Lent one has to see it within the context of the entire Christian year. So the church calendar is where we must…

Marking The Days That Have Marked Us

January 20, 2011 · by Tim Frickenschmidt · in Church Calendar

“We choose to mark (certain) dates because in some way they have marked us.” – Bobby Gross Everyone has certain dates that are charged with meaning. Consider children and birthdays or wives and wedding anniversaries. Then there’s baseball fans and…

Talking stones

April 1, 2010 · by admin · in Uncategorized

“I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out.” (Luke 19:40) Jesus’ stones crying out always brings to mind Annie Dillard’s essay “Teaching a Stone to Talk”: “The island where I live is peopled with cranks…

Hitchens & Hitchens

March 29, 2010 · by admin · in Uncategorized

“I set fire to my Bible on the playing fields of my Cambridge boarding school one bright, windy spring afternoon in 196. I was 15 years old. The book did not, as I had hoped, blaze fiercely and swiftly.”  So…

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