Gregory S. Cootsona is associate pastor for education at Bidwell Presbyterian Church, adjunct faculty in philosophy at Butte College, and director of a local society, The Chico Triad on Philosophy, Theology and Science, which draws from faculty at Butte College and California State University, Chico. Greg has written two books, God and the World: A Study in the Thought of Alfred North Whitehead and Karl Barth and Creation and Last Things: At the Intersection of Theology and  Science. He holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature from the U.C. Berkeley, a Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. in Systematic and Philosophical Theology and the Philosophy of Religion from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. Greg and his wife, Laura, live in Chico with their two daughters.