Name: Teaching Science in a Christian High School - Resource - BioLogos
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Description: Teacher Faith Tucker Stults discusses her career journey, and what teaching science in a Christian high school setting is like, and her approaches to important topics like the age of the universe.

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Faith Stults is Program Manager at BioLogos where she supports K12 educators through resource recommendations and training opportunities. She is also leading a team to adapt the <a href="http://biologos.org/integrate">Integrate curriculum</a> for use in churches and other settings. Faith's passion for science education and for healing the church’s relationship with science came out of her experience as a science-loving kid growing up at Christian schools. After double-majoring in Astronomy and Religion at Whitman College, she worked as the Project Coordinator for the AAAS’s program on the Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion. She researched science education at Christian high schools as part of her MS in Science Education at Stanford University and then spent seven years teaching high school physics and astronomy at a Christian high school in the San Francisco Bay Area. She also recently completed an MS in Astronomy from the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia in her "spare time".

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Deborah Haarsma is President of BioLogos. She is an astronomer and frequent speaker on modern science and Christian faith at research universities, churches, and public venues like the National Press Club. Her work appears in several recent books, including <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Creation-Evolution-Intelligent-Design-Counterpoints-ebook/dp/B06XFN3TW6/ref=sr_1_5" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.com/Creation-Evolution-Intelligent-Design-Counterpoints-ebook/dp/B06XFN3TW6/ref%3Dsr_1_5&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1547561515803000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHiLRhboyYIpvHL1dswTaThwutQ7g">Four Views on Creation, Evolution, and Design</a> and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Christ-Created-Order-Perspectives-Philosophy-ebook/dp/B072TLQ1NX/ref=pd_sim_351_3/145-1145379-1292039" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.com/Christ-Created-Order-Perspectives-Philosophy-ebook/dp/B072TLQ1NX/ref%3Dpd_sim_351_3/145-1145379-1292039&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1547561515803000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFGfW2uchYcRzCbsvuuMXj25k6hgA">Christ and the Created Order</a>.  She wrote the book <a href="http://www.faithaliveonline.org/origins/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.faithaliveonline.org/origins/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1547561515803000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHrmogLeDSXX0_fZ8D6zAc2G7tJ4g">Origins</a> with her husband and fellow physicist, Loren Haarsma, presenting the agreements and disagreements among Christians regarding the history of life and the universe.  She edited the anthology <a href="http://store.calvin.edu/shop_product_detail.asp?catalog_group_id=LTQ&amp;catalog_group_name=U2VhcmNoIFJlc3VsdHM&amp;catalog_id=0&amp;catalog_name=U2VhcmNoIFJlc3VsdHM&amp;pf_id=30286&amp;product_name=RGVsaWdodCBJbiBDcmVhdGlvbg&amp;type=3&amp;search_text=delight+in+creation&amp;f=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://store.calvin.edu/shop_product_detail.asp?catalog_group_id%3DLTQ%26catalog_group_name%3DU2VhcmNoIFJlc3VsdHM%26catalog_id%3D0%26catalog_name%3DU2VhcmNoIFJlc3VsdHM%26pf_id%3D30286%26product_name%3DRGVsaWdodCBJbiBDcmVhdGlvbg%26type%3D3%26search_text%3Ddelight%2Bin%2Bcreation%26f%3D&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1547561515803000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGU8ygTu9wHyLuzR0LQR1SJ91uiBA">Delight in Creation: Scientists Share Their Work with the Church</a> with Rev. Scott Hoezee. Previously, Haarsma served as professor and chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Calvin University.

She is an experienced research scientist, with several publications in the Astrophysical Journal and the Astronomical Journal on extragalactic astronomy and cosmology. She has studied large galaxies, galaxy clusters, the curvature of space, and the expansion of the universe using telescopes around the world and in orbit.  Haarsma completed her doctoral work in astrophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her undergraduate work in physics and music at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota. She and Loren enjoy science fiction and classical music, and live in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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