Saturday, February 11 Speaker for Messiah Community Church's   Bock Lecture Series.


Saturday, February 4 Book signing and participating in the Seattle University's annual  Search for Meaning: Pacific Northwest Spirituality Book Festival.

Wednesday, December 1, 4:00 PM  Guest speaker for a biology class at  Trinity College.

Wednesday, August 31, 6:00-8:00 PM  Panel discussion with  the Interfaith Amigos, and Peter Snow, and book signng, all as a part of the  Northwest Book Fest.

Wednesday, August 31, 6:00-8:00 PM  Seminar and book signing at:

Monday-Friday, August 13-August 20, 7:00 PM  Workshop and discussion group at  Holden Village

Monday, April 18, 2011 7:00 PM Seminar titled "A Dialog Regarding Spirituality: Searching for Reality, and Discovering the Divine at the Eastside Unitarian Church, Bellevue, Washington, as a part of their adult education program.
February 1, 2011 Author available to sign books and discuss Explore the Gap between Science and Religion at the Seattle Book Summit.
November, 2010 Release of the second edition of Exploring the Gap between Science and Religion. Additional content includes: an index, a section titled "What then is truth?", and edits that address the review of a microbiologist whose second career is a Lutheran Pastor.  The second edition is released so that it can be used as a text book in a college course.  See "Exploring the Gap As Text in College Course".  
October 7, 8, 9, 2010 Author available to sign and discuss the Second Edition of Explore the Gap between Science and Religion at the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association 2010 Fall Trade Show in Portland Oregon.
October, 2010 Introduced Exploring the Gap between Science and Religion as a college course.  Under development is a course syllabus that can be used as a text book in college philosophy courses.  The objective of the course will be to examine both the philosophy of science and the philosophy of religion side-by-side.  The course will provide the student with a rich opportunity to discuss the topics that intersect both  science and religion, including truth, knowledge, and the "nature of" the universe and Divine.  Exploring the Gap between Science and Religion will provide linkage and materials for class research and discussion.   The two accompanying texts will be:  God, Freedom, and Evil by Alvin C. Plantinga and Theory and Reality by Peter Godfry-Smith.  

May 2nd, 2010 Powerpoint presentation of Exploring the Gap to the "Adult Forum" at St. Willifred's Episcopal Church in Huntington Beach California.  This will be an hour-long presentation and question and answer session.  
April 16-17, 2010 Workshop leader at a conference titled Apocalypse and Ecology: Is This the End of the World?  Drawing from the keynote speaker and author Babara Rossing and the "Left Behind" series, the workshop take a look at these two perspectives by "Exploring the Gap between the Apocalypse and Ecology".  The workshop will treat the issues of the Biblical Apocalypse and the modern science of ecology using the same set of criteria used in Exploring the Gap between Science and Religion.  

This workshop  held at Trinity Lutheran College in Everett Washington:

November  1, 8, 15, 22, 29 2009 -- 8:45 to 10:00, 2009  A seminar on Exploring the Gap between Science and Religion at Holy Cross Lutheran church.  The original 5-week program was extended by vote to 7 weeks.


Ocotber 24-25, 2009 Author to be at Seattle Book Fest promoting Exploring the Gap between Science and Religion ordered from Amazon. 
September 12, 2009 Author signing copies of Explore the Gap between Science and Religion at the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Fall Trade Show in Portland Oregon.
July 2009 Author starts Study Guide for Exploring the Gap.  Select "Study Guide" button above for details.
August 12, 2009 A copy of Exploring the Gap between Science and Religion ordered from Amazon to test delivery.
August 11, 2009 Exploring the Gap between Science and Religion found in search on Amazon.com.
August 5, 2009 Exploring the Gap between Science and Religion manuascript "released".
July 31st 2009 Received the publication draft from the publisher.  Minor edits communicated to publisher.

Listed below is a snapshot of a few events in history relevent leading up to Exploring the Gap.  

1514 -- Copernicus gives a six-page hand-written text describing how the earth rotates around the sun.  This eventually leads to him writing De revolutionibus. He was still writing it when he died in 1543.
1546 -- Dominican preist Giovanni Maria Tolosani denounced Copernicus's theory, defending the truth of scripture.
1610 -- Galileo published his account of his telesopic observations of the moons of Jupiter.
March 1616 -- The Catholic Church decrees that suspended publication of De revolutionibus. Criticism of Galileo increases.
1633 -- Galileo put on trial for heresy.
1905-- Einstein publishes special theory of relativity.
1915-- Einstein publishes general theory of relativity.
1927-- Heisenberg develops the uncertainty principle.

Leading Up To Exploring the Gap between Science and Religion

The following events reflect own journey, leading up Exploring the Gap:
1972- 74 -- I wrestle with the question of whether God exists.   God assures me, in the dead of night, "I'm right here."  I realize that God is the only place to answer the question, "Does God Exist".
1998 -- I experience the sense of "You have followed the right path", with a feeling I will "tell the world".
2000 --  Angels and Demons by Dan Brown is published.  The plot deals with conflict between the Catholic church and experiments in "discrete particle physics". See quote on the right.
2002 -- I conclude that Christianity needs to be built on a philosophy that is independent of science's observation of the universe.  I begin working on writing.
2004 -- March 2008 -- I work on writing the first draft of Exploring the Gap Between Science and Religion.  During this time, the book undergoes at least two title changes.
September 8 through 12, 2008 -- I gave Exploring the Gap Seminar at Holden Village.
September 15 through 16, 2008 -- I attend Pacific Northwest Bookselllers Association Tradeshow, Portland Oregon with Bennett and Hastings Publishing.
Fall 2008 -- I complete  Exploring the Gap, by incorporating what I learn from the seminar given at Holden Village.  It will undergo editing, and be sent out for review.
Feburary 21, 2009 -- Picked up edited copy from publisher.  Next step: copies  to be sent to authors for review: Jim Wallis, Marcus Borg, Victor Stenger, Eckhart Tolle, John Shelby Spong, Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer, Brian McLaren, and Douglas Grootuis.
May  2009 1) Updated graphics updated into draft, then reviewed with editor/publisher.  2) Contracted with publicist Mary Myers to coordinate publication release, and hopefully a slot on the Oprah show.  3)  Discovered that the email isn't working on the "Notify when published button" (above).  4)  Set up a blog page in anticipation of  going to print.  See quote on right.
May  2009 Angels and Demons movie is released.   Someone in the Caholic church feels threatened by the capture of the "God particle" .  See quote on the right.
March 2010 I start the second edition , adding an index, address reviewers, and add section titled "What then is Truth?"
Apirl 2010  The syllabus is completed, calling for Exploring the Gap between Science and Religion as one of three textbooks in a college philsophy course.
September  2010 Second edition is comleted, and  is introduced to the Northwest Booksellers Association Tradeshow in  Portland

Last updated: 2/19/2012