Ask the Authors: Sy Garte and Beth Madison - Science Communicators of Faith, ACB & Union University
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Ask the Authors: Sy Garte and Beth Madison - Science Communicators of Faith, ACB & Union University

 Export to Your Calendar 11/20/2025
When: Thursday, November 20, 2025
7:30 pm ET
Where: Online
United States
Contact: Ciara Reyes-Ton
ccreyes@umich.edu

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Do you hope to publish a book someday? Are you interested in learning more about the book publishing process? Do you want to hear the personal stories and journeys of successful authors? This event is for you! All are welcome from students to scholars.

Ask the Authors: Sy Garte and Beth Madison 
Join us on November 20th at 7:30PM ET for a conversation with Drs. Sy Garte and Beth Madison about their journeys to becoming published authors, and learn more about their work and writing as well.

Sy (Seymour) Garte is the author of the award-winning book The Works of His Hands: A Scientist’s Journey from Atheism to Faith. He has been a tenured professor at New York University, Rutgers University, and the University of Pittsburgh, division director at the Center for Scientific Review of the National Institutes of Health, and interim vice president for research at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. He has published over two hundred peer-reviewed scientific papers and five books, as well as articles on science and Christian faith in periodicals such as Perspectives in Science and Christian Faith, More to Life, and Christianity Today.

Currently, Dr. Garte serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the American Scientific Affiliation’s (ASA) online quarterly magazine God and Nature, and also as vice president for the Washington, DC, metro chapter of the ASA. He was a member of the board of advisors of the John Templeton Foundation. Dr. Garte became a Christian later in life and is now a Certified lay Servant of the United Methodist Church in Rockville, MD.

Beth Madison is an associate professor of sciences at Union University with a Ph.D., M.S., and B.S., in soil sciences. She teaches courses in biology, physics, and environmental sciences in-seat and online to adult and traditional students from across the U.S. and internationally.  She is the author of “Well-Grounded: Cultivating Intimacy with God,” and “Good Ground” volumes 1 and 2 published by Northeastern Baptist Press. She also writes weekly at soulscientistblog.com and serves as Member-at-large for SCF.

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