Before ordination as an Episcopal priest, Jim served as a physicist (Ph.D., University of California) in some of the foremost scientific centers in the country, most recently at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, in New Mexico, where he was deputy director for the Physics Division. His research led to over seventy publications in scientific journals.
Jim has served as a priest in parishes in New Mexico, Texas, and Wisconsin.
He is currently Clergy in Residence at Christ Church, Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin. He notes, “I was often asked how someone trained in a field so rational and analytical as physics could embrace something so intuitive, fuzzy and ancient as religion.”
The answer can be found in his first book, Grasp: Making Sense of Science and Spirituality. Since that book, Jim has written six novels and is working on his seventh. Jim’s wife, Mary, is also an Episcopal priest and scientist. They have three grown children and five heavily-doted-upon grandchildren.