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Addie Jo Schonewolf
Hello, I’m Jo. I’ve been a United Methodist all my life and have been given grace upon grace as I’ve bumped up against and struggled with questions of faith, including many of the ones we’ll tackle here. My undergraduate degree is in physics and astronomy with a concentration in education and a minor in religious studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I spent several years working in informal science education at Morehead Planetarium and Science Center before attending the University of Edinburgh last year, earning a masters in Science and Religion. My dissertation focused on awe and wonder in the work of astrophysicists Carl Sagan and Sir Arthur Eddington. If you couldn’t tell, I kinda like space. I’m currently working on my masters of divinity at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, DC.
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Melanie Dzugan
And I’m Melanie. I’m the first graduate of Samford University’s Science and Religion undergraduate degree program, the first program of its kind. I was raised in the Baptist Church and struggled a lot with my faith as I worked through my major, but I am a much stronger, more at peace Christian because of it. I took my concentrations in religion and computer science with me to The University of Edinburgh where I met Jo in our Science and Religion Masters program. My dissertation centered on network technologies-- smart phones, personal identification implants, or even brain to brain connectivity-- and how Christian theologians might best prepare for an increasingly interconnected future.
