A few days ago the Writers Collective ran a short, provocative essay by Dylan Peterson about “Inherit the Wind”, Stanley Kramer’s 1960 movie about the Scopes “Monkey” Trial, and the never-ending kerfuffle between evolution and creationism. Dylan, a writer I admire and count...

A couple days ago I finished reading a very good book, “The Language of God,” by Francis C. Collins, the longtime head of the Human Genome Project and, by the way, an evangelical Christian. At one point in the book, Collins cites a 2004 Gallup poll which asked the following question: “Which...