Karl Giberson

Karl Giberson is a well-known scholar of science-and-religion. He was the founding editor of Science & Theology News and editor-in-chief of Science & Spirit magazine for four years. He has published over a hundred articles, reviews, and essays, both technical and popular, and written four books: Worlds Apart: The Unholy War Between Science and Religion, Species of Origins: America's Search for a Creation Story (with Don Yerxa), Oracles of Science: Celebrity Scientists Versus God and Religion (with Mariano Artigas), and Saving Darwin: How to Be a Christian and Believe in Evolution (forthcoming, 2008). Giberson, who has a Ph.D. in physics from Rice University, is a professor at Eastern Nazarene College, where he teaches interdisciplinary honors seminars and the history of science. 

Clark H. Pinnock is Professor of Systematic Theology at McMaster Divinity College, member of the Faculty of Theology at McMaster University, and author of over a dozen theological monographs. Among these are A Wideness in God's Mercy: the Finality of Jesus Christ in a World of Religions (Zondervan, 1992), Unbounded Love: a Good News Theology for the 21st Century (InterVarsity/Paternoster, 1994; co-authored with Robert Brow), Flame of Love: a Theology of the Holy Spirit (InterVarsity, 1996), Most Moved Mover: A Theology of God's Openness (Baker Academic, 2001). For more, see Pinnock's web page.

Thomas (Tom) Jay Oord is Professor of Theology and Philosophy at Northwest Nazarene University, Nampa, Idaho. He serves as theologian for the Institute for Research on Unlimited Love, and is co-director of the institute’s Altruistic Love and Science Course Competition. He contributes frequently to Science and Theology News as its Academic Correspondent and Contributing Editor. See Oord’s CV for publication and other professional information.

Oord has been married for eighteen years to his wife, Cheryl, who is a grade-school teacher.  The couple has three young daughters, Sydnee, Lexi, and Andee.  Tom is co-leader of an “emergent church,” plays bass guitar, enjoys playing basketball, and collects theological and philosophical memorabilia.