Through a Microscope; Something of the Science, Together With Many Curious Observations Indoor and out and Directions for a Home-made Microscope

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The Reverend Dr. Sam Wells (Ph.D., Durham University) has been Dean of Duke University Chapel, North Carolina since 2005. His pastoral experience before coming to Duke included a spell as a community worker in inner-city Liverpool. He served four parishes as a Church of England priest from 1991-2005.

In addition to his role at Duke Chapel, Sam is also Research Professor of Christian Ethics at Duke Divinity School. He has published six single-author works "Transforming Fate into Destiny" (Carlisle: Paternoster and Eugene: Cascade, 1998); "Community-Led Estate Regeneration and the Local Church" (Cambridge: Grove, 2003); "Improvisation: The Drama of Christian Ethics" (Grand Rapids: Brazos and London: SPCK, 2004); "Gods Companions: Reimagining Christian Ethics" (Oxford, UK and Malden, Massachusetts, 2006) "Power and Passion: Six Characters is Search of Resurrection" (The Archbishop of Canterburys Lent Book 2007, Grand Rapids: Zondervan) and "Speaking the Truth: Preaching in a Pluralistic Culture" (Nashville: Abingdon, 2008)

He has also issued three jointly-edited volumes: "Faithfulness and Fortitude" (with Mark Thiessen Nation, Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 2000); "The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics" (with Stanley Hauerwas, Oxford, UK and Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2004) and "Living Out Loud: Conversations about virtue, ethics, and evangelicalism" (Paternoster, 2010)