The Goshen College Conference on Religion and Science

Prof. Gayle WoloschakThe guest speaker for the 2013 conference will be Professor Gayle Woloschak.


The annual Goshen College Conference on Religion and Science is designed to provide maximum interaction with a principal thinker in the dialog between religion and science.

A single invited speaker presents three lectures, two of which are open to the public. Small moderated discussion sessions provide conference participants an opportunity to address topics from the lectures in conversation with the speaker.

Conference attendance is limited to fifty. Conference participants include pastors, and interested lay persons, as well as academic scientists, mathematicians, theologians, and students.

Past Conferences and Guest Speakers

2012 – Celia Deane-Drummond >>

  • Re-imaging the Divine Image: Humans and Other Animals

2011 – Owen Gingerich >>

  • Worrying About Evolution

2010 – Phil Clayton >>

  • Evolution after the Religion Wars

2009 – Noreen Herzfeld >>

  • The Limits of Perfection

2008 – Holmes Rolston >>

  • Science and Origins

2007 – Ted Peters >>

  • The Evolution of Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Life

2006 – PHILIP J. HEFNER >>

  • Religion-and-Science as a Spiritual Quest

2005 – ROBERT JOHN RUSSELL >>

  • Cosmology, Evolution, and Resurrection Hope

2004 – JOHN F. HAUGHT >>

  • Purpose, Evolution, and the Mystery of Life

2003 – ANTJE JACKELÉN >>

  • Dialogue/Religion and Science

2002 – GEORGE ELLIS >>

  • A Universe of Ethics, Morality and Hope

2001 – NANCEY MURPHY >>

  • God, Evolution and the Soul