In the wake of administrative upheaval for federal health and safety departments, former National Institutes of Health director and geneticist Francis Collins is coming to Spokane to discuss the themes of his book, “The Road to Wisdom: On Truth, Science, Faith, and Trust.”

The event is the next in Whitworth University’s President’s Leadership Forum and will be held at the Fox Theater on Oct. 2, in partnership with The Spokesman-Review’s Northwest Passages.

“It’s a book that I wrote two years ago, but it seems more relevant than ever right now,” Collins said. “It basically is talking about the way in which our society is in a difficult place, having become so divided – so polarized – about so many topics, to the point where we’ve stopped trusting each other as much as probably we should.

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