Nathan Barczi is an MIT Chaplain serving as Associate Director and Senior Theologian for the Octet Collaborative, a Christian study center serving MIT. He served as Associate Pastor at Christ the King Presbyterian Church in Cambridge, Mass. from 2014 to 2021, where he was awarded the John Stott award from the Creation Project at the Henry Center, a grant that supported him and his congregation in a year exploring the doctrine of creation in an age of science with eminent scientists and theologians.  Since 2021 he has served as Associate Pastor at Christ the King Church in Newton, Mass. He is a cohort facilitator for the Boston Fellows, and a fellow of the Center for Pastor Theologians.  His Christianity Today article about his work with Harvard geneticists exploring the bioethics of gene editing won an Evangelical Press Association Award. Prior to serving in full-time vocational ministry, he was an economic consultant for The Brattle Group and an assistant economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.  He was the founding executive director of the Octet Collaborative, and he holds a PhD in theology from the University of Nottingham and a PhD in economics from MIT.  He did his undergraduate work at Stanford University in his native Silicon Valley.  He lives with his wife (another Bay Area native) and three children in Somerville, Massachusetts.