The Reverend Dr. James Woodrow Last time I introduced the nineteenth-century idea of professorships devoted to exploring and improving the relations of science and scripture. They seemed like a good idea—but the first such chair ended up causing quite a ruckus. Interestingly, in view of the later Scopes Trial, which ever after gave the American…

As the historian among the contributors to Sapientia, I’ll be presenting instructive episodes in the history of the interpretation of Genesis (and the Bible more broadly) in light of modern geology and evolutionism. There are plenty of them, and I’m looking forward to bringing them to your attention, along with my reflections on their present…

Choose science and abandon faith; or, if you’re a Bible-believing Christian, then stick your head in the sand like an ostrich and deny everything mainstream science is telling us. Such are the stark options for a growing number of evangelical teenagers and millennials whose lives are saturated with science and technology.See David Kinnaman, You Lost…

Marci Rae Johnson, Basic Disaster Supplies Kit: Poems (Steel Toe Books, 2015) In Basic Disaster Supplies Kit, her second collection, Marci Rae Johnson explores love, parenthood, and the Christian life in the context of life on-line, reveling in the Internet’s speed, distortion, and telescoping of time and space. Her poems absorb and transform distant galaxies,…