The Rev. Dr. Paul Wallace

Denomination: Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF)
Organization: Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA

Paul Wallace teaches physics and astronomy at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Ga. He also teaches occasionally at Emory University's Candler School of Theology and at Columbia Theological Seminary.

A science nerd since childhood, Paul received his PhD in experimental nuclear physics from Duke University and worked for a number of years in gamma-ray astronomy. He was a professor of physics and astronomy at Berry College in Rome, Ga until 2008. In that year he resigned from Berry to start the Master of Divinity program at Candler and graduated with a concentration in historical theology in May 2011. In November 2014 he was ordained by First Baptist Church of Decatur, a congregation of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.

His first book, Stars Beneath Us: Finding God in the Evolving Cosmos, will be released by Fortress Press on February 1, 2016.

Though a Christian, Paul has a deep affection for Buddhism and has twice served on the faculty of the Emory-Tibet Science Initiative in Dharamshala, India. In an earlier life he spent three fun-filled summers in Greenbelt, Md. as a Faculty Fellow at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Paul contributes to Religion Dispatches and blogs at the Huffington Post and at psnt.net. He lives in Decatur with his wife Elizabeth and their three children.