The Narthex
The Scopes Trial as an Anthropological Question
Both parties in the famed 1925 trial were using the case to push flawed concepts of man
By John M. Grondelski | July 23rd 2025 11:31 AMThe trial of John Scopes, the Tennessee teacher who taught evolution despite a state law banning it, ended in his conviction a century ago this week. Many who comment on the case cast it as a conflict between “science” and “religion.” Those elements were present. I prefer, however, to cast…
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Good moral action is always a divine-human partnership
By John M. Grondelski | December 15th 2024 11:22 PMThe Second Sunday of Advent’s Second Reading makes an observation all too often lost (since homilists rarely preach on the Second Reading) about the Divine-human dynamic in the good men do. In the text, St. Paul expresses confidence “that the one who began a good work in you will continue…
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