Co-Director: Dr Carl Sigel

Carl Sigel received a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Indiana University. He has more than 34 years of research and management experience in the discovery and development of new drugs in the pharmaceutical industry, with particular expertise in the areas of drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics. He has held adjunct teaching positions in at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill and Campbell University.  Dr Sigel also is deeply committed to community service, with leadership roles in both Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts and presidency of the Board of Directors of the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle.  

Co-Director: The Rev Dr George Clifford

The Rev. George M. Clifford III has a B.A. (Bowdoin), M. Div. (Princeton Theological Seminary), M.B.A. (Maine), and D.Min. (Wesley Theological Seminary).  He served for twenty-four years as a Navy chaplain, retiring in 2006 with the rank of Captain.  Canonically resident in the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, he now focuses his ministry on writing about Christian social ethics, military ethics, and the nexus of science and religion.

Mentor and Co-Founder: Dr Jane Vella

Our approach to adult learning is guided by the work of Dr Jane Vella, who founded our dialog, made initial contact with the Metanexus Institute, and continues to provide strategic support.

Co-Founder: The Rev Dr David Buck

The Reverend David E. Buck, D.Min., is now Rector at St. Alban's Church (Episcopal), Davidson, North Carolina. Before becoming an Anglican priest, he was a Baptist pastor for twenty-five years. He has four post-graduate degrees in theology with emphasis on language and historical-critical study of the Bible. Rev'd Buck has taught biblical languages (Greek, Hebrew) in an adjunct capacity at Princeton Theological Seminary and General Theological Seminary, New York City. His commitment to faith and science dialog and the universality of truth parallel and partly explain his transition from an increasingly fundamentalistic and anti-scientific religious setting to one more embracing of open inquiry in all fields of knowledge.