The Episcopal Church Network for Science, Technology and Faith is dedicated to delivering the best resources for the church on matters of our evolving and ever more technologically advanced world.

Our current projects focus on sustainability of natural resources and include projects focused on biodiversity, climate change, food systems and water systems.

The Executive Council Committee on Science, Technology, and Faith

The Committee’s primary purpose is to identify, explore and recommend policies to church’s governing bodies regarding emerging issues in science and technology and their implications for Christian faith, life, and practice.

The committee’s primary tasks are to facilitate education on the theological, scientific, and ethical implications of policy-related and other controversial issues, represent the Church in ecumenical and other gatherings relating to its concerns, and to serve as a resource for Church bodies.

The Committee is comprised of 12 members, appointed by the President of the House Deputies and the Presiding Bishop, who meet semiannually.

The Episcopal Church Network for Science, Technology and Faith

The Network exists to facilitate dialogue between this Church and members of the scientific, technical, and medical communities; to be an educational resource for this Church, its seminaries, and the wider Christian community; and to provide guidelines in Christian ethics for use in everyday decisions within contemporary American culture.

Goals
To further its mission, the Network will seek opportunities to provide:

• news releases for diocesan newsletters and other print and electronic media;
• aids for Christian education in the parish, concentrating on the young people of confirmation or pre-confirmation age;
• liaison with seminaries, to offer the experience and knowledge of our members, and to seek the resources of ethicists, theologians, and pastoral theologians;
• updates about the churches’ faith-and-science dialogues (Episcopal, Anglican Communion, Ecumenical), including information about available curricular, pastoral, and other resources in this field;
• an official presence within the national church structure to facilitate networking for professionals in science, engineering and medicine who are Episcopalians;
• support and encouragement for those seeking to integrate their work in science with their vocation as baptized Christians;
• vigilance concerning developments in science and technology, to help the Episcopal Church leadership identify issues of theological or ethical significance that call for discussion and response; and
• liaison with committees and other groups whose missions are in keeping with that of this Network.

Organization
The Network is open to all Episcopalians interested in the interactions of Christian faith with the sciences, technology, and medicine.  The Steering Board decides and coordinates the major projects undertaken during each triennium.  As a subcommittee of the Executive Council Committee on Science, Technology and Faith, the Steering Board has a formal relationship to Church structure.  Some of the officers are appointed by the Executive Council; others are elected from the Network.  Network members who have an active interest in this work may become eligible for election, if they so desire, by first making their interest known to the Steering Board through the Membership Secretary.