President’s Column

The PC(USA) has in recent years given attention to the Precautionary Principle in the context of its social witness presence and responsibility. The 223rd GA approved a report on the subject[1]. The Precautionary Principle originated in engineering circles, going...

2020 has gone, 2021 has arrived. The Trump administration has gone, the Biden administration has arrived. What has gone before, still leaves us with its legacy, though. CoVID-19, racism, white supremacy, gross income inequality, global warming, armed conflicts,...

My colleague at the Center for Astrophysics, Jonathan McDowell, recently wrote an article in Physics Today[1] trying to answer the question: where does outer space start? At what height above the surface of the earth do we transition from the terrestrial realm to...

It is now August 2020 and we are five months (or, arguably, seven months) into the CoViD-19 pandemic. Add to that the fact that antiracism has also prominently entered public consciousness and an upcoming presidential election that seems more contentious than ever,...

Since I penned my column for the February 2020 issue of SciTech our world has changed dramatically. At that time we expected to have a Board Meeting at the end of April in Chicago, combined with the annual Ecumenical Round Table of science and faith organizations...

The first thing I need to do in my first President’s Column, is to thank Jim Miller, my predecessor, for all he has done for the Association. It is highly unlikely that any future president will ever have such an illustrious predecessor again. Jim has been active...