The Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences promotes interaction between theology and science through research, teaching and public service. It focuses on physics, cosmology, evolutionary biology, genetics and other topics in the neurosciences, technology, the environmental sciences and mathematics. The central theological focus is on Christian theology, ethics and spirituality, with additional attention to the […]

Jeffrey Walton is communications manager for the Institute on Religion and Democracy in Washington, D.C. where he often writes about the Anglican and Episcopal churches.

Kathryn Barush is an assistant professor of art history and religion at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, where she studies art and the material culture of pilgrimage, domestic and urban shrines, sacred art and sacred space, and the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and the visual arts.

James Lawrence is an assistant professor of Christian spirituality and historical studies at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, Calif. He studies Protestant spiritual disciplines and practice, especially Swedenborgians, New Religious Movements, and sports and spirituality.

Barbara Green is a professor of biblical studies at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, Calif. Her research includes Christian spirituality and biblically based fiction.

Jennifer Wilkins Davidson is an associate professor of theology at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. Her research areas include Communion and baptism among American Baptists, the Black Lives Matter movement and the spiritual practices of the “nones.”