About the October, 2025 webinar: FOR ARCHIVE

Meet Ted Peters. He is a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and emeritus professor at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary and the Graduate Theological Union. His single volume systematic theology, God—The World’s Future, is now in the 3rd edition. He has also authored God as Trinity plus Sin: Radical Evil in Soul and Society as well as Sin Boldly: Justifying Faith for Fragile and Broken Souls. In 2023 he published. The Voice of Public Theology, with ATF Press. This year he has published an edited volume, Promise and Peril of AI and IA: New Technology Meets Religion, Theology, and Ethics (ATF 2025) and along with Arvin Gouw an edited collection, The CRISPR Revolution in Science, Religion, and Ethics (Bloomsbury 2025). See his website: TedsTimelyTake.com. For Substack and Patheos, Ted Peters posts articles and notices in the field of Public Theology.

​You are invited!
Please join IRAS for the next session of our monthly webinar series, Science, Religion, and Society.
September 25, 2025 
IRAS will host a live webinar: 
Nuclear Incidents and Accidents: Past, Present, Future
with Dr. Gayle Woloschak Join our webinar series, Science, Religion, and Society.

Science, Religion & Society: An Online Series 
Inaugural Sessions that started during summer of 2020

For 65 years, The Institute on Religion in an Age of Science (IRAS) has held summer Conferences on Star Island, off the coast of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Due to the pandemic, we had to postpone our 2020 Star Island conference until the summer of 2021. In order to continue to engage with IRAS themes and the IRAS community, with Star Island’s generous support, we launched a live webinar series: Science, Religion, & Society. Below are the collected session videos.

Next Session:

Nuclear Incidents and Accidents: Past, Present, Future
with Dr. Gayle Woloschak

September 25, 2025, at
5:00 PM Eastern Time
4:00 PM Central Time
1:00 PM Pacific Time
10:00 PM England, UK
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This IRAS webinar is FREE but
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About the September 25, 2025 webinar: 
Nuclear Incidents and Accidents: Past, Present, Future

Presentation Overview:  
Radiation has always been part of our planet, but the discovery of radiation was not made until 1895 when Roentgen discovered X-rays and then in 1896 with the identification of radioactive elements. Since that time, radiation has been used for the benefit of humanity in medical exposures, nuclear power, and others; but also to the detriment of humanity with the use of atomic bombs and nuclear weapons. This talk will examine both sides of these uses, including the need for continued regulation and vigilance, the development of new tools and technologies for mitigation of radiation effects, and the possible risks associated with failure to appropriately regulate.
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Presenter’s Background: Gayle Woloschak is Professor of Radiation Oncology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and Associate Dean of The Graduate School at Northwestern. She has a PhD in Biomedical Sciences and a D Min in Orthodox Christian Theology. She is active in the radiation community serving as a member of the US delegation to the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation, Scientific Vice President for the National Council on Radiation Protection, Co-chair of Committee 1 for the International Commission on Radiation Protection. She also teaches courses related to theology at Lutheran School of Theology Chicago and St Sophia Ukrainian Orthodox Theological Seminary. She has published over 250 papers and edits several journals.

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