Arnold Rots, President, Class of 2025

Arnold Rots is a Ruling Elder and retired (though still active) astrophysicist, living in Waltham, MA. He has worked at observatories in the Netherlands, Virginia, West Virginia, New Mexico, India, Maryland, and, finally, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, MA. He has a keen interest in theology and organs, and enjoys playing the cello in the local orchestra and doing (sprint) triathlons. He has in recent decades served Church of the Covenant, Presbytery of Boston, and Synod of the Northeast. He is a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society and a member of, among many others, the Fellowship Of Reconciliation and Astronomers for Planet Earth.

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.

E. Harold Breitenberg, Jr.,
SciTech† Editor,
Class of 2026

E. Harold “Hal” Breitenberg, Jr. is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, VA, where he teaches a religion and science course, directs the Ethics minor, and co-directed Convergence: A High School Youth Theology Institute on Faith and Science, funded by the Lilly Endowment. Christian ethics, especially public theology, is his primary area of research. Hal studied at The College of William and Mary (B.A. music and religion), The Catholic University of America (M.M. music composition), and Union Presbyterian Seminary (M.Div. & Ph.D.). He is an ordained teaching elder in the PC(USA) and a parish associate at Tuckahoe Presbyterian Church, Richmond, VA.

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.