South Carolina’s Jim Miller wins the McCall Award from the Presbyterian Association on Science, Technology and the Christian Faith
by the Presbyterian Association on Science, Technology and the Christian Faith | Special to Presbyterian News Service
The Rev. Jim Miller
LOUISVILLE — The McCall Award, bestowed by the Presbyterian Association on Science, Technology, and the Christian Faith (PASTCF), goes this year to the board’s past president, the Rev. Jim Miller, of Summerville, South Carolina.
According to a news release, the award was instituted to honor individuals for excellence in science, technology and Christian faith ministry in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
The board had this to say about Miller:
“Jim Miller, MDiv, PhD, SOSc, through his 39-year involvement in the leadership of the Presbyterian Association on Science, Technology, and the Christian Faith (PASTCF), his work with the AAAS DoSER program, his leadership in the annual Ecumenical Round Table gatherings, and his tireless work in the PC(USA) for promoting healthy discussion at the interface of science and faith, is the quintessential example of one who “has demonstrated personal engagement with science, technology and the Christian faith” as a nominee who in many ways “has helped the PC(USA) at the congregational level or above realize such engagement in its life and work.”
“It is therefore an honor, a privilege, and a great pleasure for the Board of the PASTCF to award the 2020 McCall Award of the Association to Jim Miller.”
The Rev. Dr. Kenneth E. McCall was the founding president of the Presbyterian Association on Science, Technology and the Christian Faith.
The McCall recognition is named in honor of the late Rev. Dr. Kenneth E. McCall (1932-2013), who was instrumental in PASTCF’s origin and its founding president. In his life and work, trusting the God who makes all things new, McCall saw clearly how science and technology relate implicitly to the church’s whole life, faith, ministry and witness, the board said.
According to its website, the Presbyterian Association on Science, Technology and the Christian Faith has a three-fold mission:
- To point the PC (USA) to scientific and technological developments as they provoke Christian theological reformation, stimulate ethical reflection and affect the moral actions of the Christian community.
- To call upon the PC (USA) to incorporate the discoveries of science and the capabilities of science-based technologies in its worship, education and mission of service in the world.
- To affirm Christians for whom science and technology are calls upon their lives and to encourage their distinctive responsibilities in the Body of Christ.
The inaugural recipients of the McCall Award in 2018 were Barbara A. Pursey (Dubuque, Iowa, spiritual formation, posthumously) and Derek L. Pursey (Dubuque, physics).
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