Richard Rice is Professor of Religion and director of the MA Program in Religion and the Sciences at Loma Linda University, where he began teaching in 1974. He has degrees from Andrews University (MDiv) and the University of Chicago Divinity School (MA, PhD). His scholarly interests include Christian theology (doctrine of God), philosophy of religion (theodicy and religious epistemology), and religion and the sciences.  His published writings include several books and a number of articles. He contributed essays to The Openness of God: A Biblical Challenge to the Traditional Understanding of God, by Pinnock et al., and Searching for an Adequate God: A Dialogue between Process and Free Will Theists, edited by John Cobb and Clark Pinnock. He is a regular contributor to Spectrum: Journal of the Association of Adventist Forums. His work has also appeared in the Journal of Religion and Religious Studies Review.  Rice is an ordained minister in the Seventh-day Adventist Church. He and his wife, Gail, who also teaches at LLU, are the parents of two grown children.