Schloss Headlines Good Friday Breakfast

Jeff Schloss, who directs the Center of Faith, Ethics and Life Sciences and is T.B. Walker professor in the natural and behavioral sciences at Westmont, speaks at the Channel Islands YMCA’s 39th annual Good Friday Breakfast on Friday, March 25, at 7 a.m. at the Fess Parker DoubleTree Resort. Tickets to the breakfast cost $50. To purchase tickets, visit www.ciymca.org/good-friday-breakfast or call (805) 687-7720 ext. 267.

With the theme Keeping Hope Alive, the breakfast will focus on the significance of the death of Jesus Christ. The morning will include breakfast, inspirational music and community fellowship.

“What a privilege to be invited to speak at the Good Friday Breakfast,” Schloss says. “I look forward to reflecting together on issues of faith and to sharing something of my personal story with the Santa Barbara community.”

A former surf bum and college dropout, Schloss returned to school after a life-changing experience with Christ, eventually graduating from Wheaton College and doing doctoral work at the University of Michigan and Washington University.

Internationally known for his scholarship on interactions between evolutionary theory and religious faith, Schloss has co-edited several major books on this topic: “Understanding Moral Sentiments: Darwinian Perspectives?” (Transaction Publishers); “The Believing Primate: Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Perspectives on the Origin of Religion” (Oxford University Press); “Evolution and Ethics: Human Morality in Biological and Religious Perspective” (Eerdmans); and “Altruism and Altruistic Love: Science, Philosophy, and Religion in Dialogue,” (Oxford University Press), which all won Templeton Science-Religion Books of Distinction Awards. He contributed to “Evolution, Games, and God” (Harvard University Press).

Schloss, who has been teaching at Westmont since 1981, has lectured and held fellowships in programs at Wheaton, Michigan, Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard and Notre Dame.  He currently serves as senior scholar for the BioLogos Foundation, an international organization advocating harmony between faith and science.