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The public is invited to hear JD Stillwater speak on “Nature’s Scripture: The Interfaith Promise of Science” at 7 p.m. Sept. 24 in the Old Main Auditorium on the McMurry University campus.

The free program will be live-streamed, hosted by the Abilene Interfaith Council. Stillwater is a science ambassador and former classroom teacher. He is one of the few scientists allowed by NASA to handle moon rocks.

Stillwater “shares insights from how nature works that are a source of inspiration and interfaith spirituality,
a promotional flier says.

Read a Q&A with Abilene Interfaith Council President Susanna Lubanga.

Stillwater has spoken at The Parliament of the World’s Religions, academic conferences, on college campuses, and at civic clubs. A graduate of Cornell University, Stillwater is an officer in the Religious Naturalist Association and serves on the governing council of the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science. A promotional flier has this to say about him:

“JD Stillwater moves and inspires thousands of people all over North America and the globe with science-centered messages of awe, deep kinship, and sustainability.”

JD Stillwater