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Intergenerational Conversations: Science-Engaged Theology

The second ISCAST—NZCIS Conversations Series of 2025 is breaking new ground with an experiment in intergenerational dialogue. Each week, an experienced voice and a younger scholar or scientist will team up to explore the meeting point of science and Christian faith in their field. Together they’ll reflect—both personally and professionally—on how the big questions and challenges have shifted (or stayed the same) across recent decades. After their conversation, you’ll have the chance to join in and put your own questions to both speakers. We’re excited by this fresh format, and we hope you—and especially younger participants—will find the conversations lively, thought-provoking, and inspiring. https://iscast.org/events/intergenera... https://www.nzcis.org/the-convo/inter... Audio recording 23 October 2025 Speakers: Doru Costache (Theologian, journal editor, and Orthodox priest) Emma Belcher (NZCIS Student Program Coordinator and potential PhD candidate) Protopresbyter Doru Costache is Professor of Theology at the Australian University College of Divinity (AUCD), Academic Dean of AUCD’s Nisibis Assyrian Theological College, and ISCAST Research Director. He authored Nature Contemplation in Clement of Alexandria: Elements of the Method (Routledge, 2025) and Humankind and the Cosmos: Early Christian Representations (Brill, 2021). He coauthored A New Copernican Turn: Contemporary Cosmology, the Self, and Orthodox Science-Engaged Theology (with Geraint F. Lewis; Routledge, 2024) and Dreams, Virtue and Divine Knowledge in Early Christian Egypt (with Bronwen Neil and Kevin Wagner; Cambridge University Press, 2019). Emma Belcher was born in New Zealand but raised in Brazil with her two older sisters as a missionary child. She is currently the Student Program Coordinator with Ngā Karaitiana Kimi Matū/New Zealand Christians in Science. She has a BSc in anthropology, a BA and MA in philosophy, and a Dip. Grad in theology. Her area of specialty is theodicy. She is passionate about translating her academic study into lived experience, especially around the question of living with pain and suffering. She enjoys dance, is an avid reader and a soccer mum! She lives in Onehunga, Auckland with her husband Charles, and their three children.