Author: Dirk Bartkoski

I grew up in a charismatic Christian home while being homeschooled with my two brothers and three sisters from the first grade to the end of high school. I went on to pursue a bachelor's degree at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, OK after which I went on to graduate school at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. While in Tennessee I finished a master's and doctoral degrees in physics while doing research on particle accelerators at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory as well as meeting my wonderful wife Kerri. Together we moved to Houston, Texas where I finished a postdoctoral position and now work as a research scientist in the division of Radiation Oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center developing novel methods for external beam radiation cancer therapy. My relationship with Jesus has been the primary guiding source in my life, Pentecostalism the lens through which I have viewed it, and science the mechanism by which I have come to understand it.