Speaker
How Millennials Are Changing The Conversation Of Science & Faith
September 22, 2017
The relationship between science and faith is shifting, due in large part to changing attitudes of Millennials. Greg Cootsona, one of the leading thinkers in this area of research, will engage questions around science and faith, and consider how both themes held together can more deeply inform our search for meaning and purpose, and for the students, we serve in a university environment.
Greg Cootsona is Lecturer in Religious Studies and Humanities at California State University at Chico and directs Science and Theology for Emerging Adult Ministries (or STEAM), a $2 million grant (aimed at 18-30-year-olds) funded by the John Templeton Foundation and housed at Fuller Theological Seminary’s Science, Theology, and Religion Initiatives (STAR) office.
His books include Creation and Last Things: At the Intersection of Theology and Science (Geneva, 2002) and C. S. Lewis and the Crisis of a Christian (WestminsterJohnKnox, 2014). His newest book, Mere Science and Christian Faith: Bridging the Divide with Emerging Adults, will be published by InterVarsity Press in March 2018.
Greg studied comparative literature at U.C. Berkeley and theology at Princeton Theological Seminary (M. Div.), the Universities of Tübingen and Heidelberg, as well as Berkeley’s Graduate Theological Union, where he received his Ph.D. And, he has just finished 18 years as Associate Pastor for Adult Discipleship at Bidwell Presbyterian Church in Chico and Fifth Avenue Presbyterian in New York City.
Greg has written for the Huffington Post, Zygon, Theology and Science, as well as the Wall Street Journal and Christianity Today. He has been interviewed by CNN and The New York Times and has appeared on the Today Show three times. He and his wife, Laura, live in Chico, California, and have two daughters (19 and 22). Besides hanging out with his family, he loves to bike, read (and write), and drink good coffee.
