Mark Douglas, Vice President, Class of 2027

Mark Douglas is an ordained teaching elder in the PC(USA) and Professor of Christian Ethics at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, GA. He teaches a wide variety of classes, including ethics, theology, and, with colleagues in astrophysics and evolutionary biology, science and religion. He also directs the Masters of Theology degree program. Mark holds degrees from Colorado College (B.A. with honors in biology), Princeton Theological Seminary (M.Div., Th.M.), and The University of Virginia (Ph.D.). His most recent book, Christian Pacifism for an Environmental Age (Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1108476485) was published in June 2019. Another, Modernity, the Environment, and the Christian Just War Tradition, also with Cambridge University Press, will be out in September of 2022. In the spring of 2022, he will be a research fellow at the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton, where he will begin work on War in a Warming World: Religion, Resources, and Refugees.

Jim Miller, Secretary, Class of 2026

Jim Miller is an honorably retired teaching elder in the Presbyterian Church (USA). He earned his MDiv from Union Presbyterian Seminary and a Ph.D. from Marquette University with a focus on science and theology.  He served as an ecumenical campus minister at Michigan Tech, the University of Pittsburgh, and Carnegie-Mellon University. For nearly ten years he was the Senior Program Associate for the Program of Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He was the founding Secretary/Treasurer of the Presbyterian Association on Science, Technology and the Christian Faith established in 1992 and served four terms as its President. Since 2008 Jim has been co-chair of the Broader Social Impacts Committee of the Program on Human Origins of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. He was elected a Fellow of the AAAS in 2020.

William J. Carl, PhD,
Class of 2026

William J. Carl, PhD, a Greek scholar, screenwriter, and playwright, has served as a professor at Union Presbyterian Seminary, senior pastor of churches in Dallas (TX) and Birmingham (AL) and president of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. He has spoken at Oxford, Cambridge, Princeton, Cornell, Boston University, and Carnegie Mellon, as well as many other schools in the US, and internationally in Russia, South Africa, India, China, South Korea, Taiwan, Rwanda, and Canada. He is the author of eight nonfiction books and one espionage novel titled Assassin’s Manuscript. Since 2000, he has lectured on the Brain at medical schools and medical conferences both in the US and China, and done Grand Rounds for major hospitals on subjects like “Brains, Bodies, Beliefs, and Behavior,” “Brains, Cancer, and Hope,” “Faith, the Brain and Pain,” and met with the senior management of AAAS at their invitation to share his research on neuroscience. His lecture titled “A Brain Technique for Preaching Without Notes” was published in SciTech a few years ago. The video version of it has gotten 10,000 views internationally. He has also been an active member of the International Neuroethics Society since its founding in 2006.