Palm Sunday 2020
Today would be a perfect day to continue the St. John's and Grace Lent series: Lent is Not Rocket Science with another familiar and yet confusing scientific principle, Chaos Theory. Chaos Theory is an interdisciplinary theory, which means it applies to almost every known realm of study. The Chaos Theory is usually summarized like this: "When the present determines the future, but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future." Underneath the summary is mathematics which show that even chaos has patterns and interconnectedness which cannot be seen. It is Chaos Theory which makes so much of good science fiction writing possible. We can write about a future which COULD happen, but that doesn't mean it necessarily will. However, on the surface, even Chaos Theory looks like it's name: chaotic. And if there is one thing we feel from today's Passion Gospel it usually can be classified in the same realm: chaos, confusion, turmoil...