Francis Collins’ Search for the Divine

While the search for the divine has been somewhat crowded out in modern times by our busy and overstimulated lives, it is still one of the most universal of human strivings. C. S. Lewis describes this phenomenon in his own life in his wonderful book Surprised by Joy, and it is this sense of intense longing, triggered in his life by something as simple as a few lines of poetry, that he identifies as “joy.” 

He describes the experience as “an…