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Dr Paul J. Kirbas, DMin, PhD

2nd December 2020

is President and CEO of The Graduate Theological Foundation (GTF), and the Paul Tillich Professor of Theology and Culture at GTF. He earned his M.Div and D.Min at Columbia Seminary, and was ordained as a Minister in the Presbyterian Church USA in 1988. Paul earned his PhD in Theological Studies from the Graduate Theological Foundation in 2007, focusing on the Theology of Nature. For many years, Paul was a Guest Professor of Theology at Wheaton College. In 2010, The Kirbas Institute was created, to support Paul’s work in building bridges between religion and science on important matters of the environment and animal ethics. He is the editor of This Sacred Earth (Wyndham Hall Press, 2011),  author of Navigating Through a Stipulated Freedom (Wyndham Hall Press, 2010) host of the TV program Animals in the Kingdom, and creator of the curriculum (book, workbook, video series) Sacred Place, Sacred Role.