[1] He served as his department's chair from 1975 to 1986 and was an emeritus professor[2] until his death on June 9, 2018.
For over twenty years he also conducted an undergraduate seminar at Stanford University on "Issues in Science and Christianity",[3] until it was cancelled in 1988.
[4] One such article on this topic would receive in-journal peer-review by Baptist theologian Bernard L. Ramm, Canadian historian and Reformed scholar W. Stanford Reid, Fuller theologian Paul King Jewett, and Christian apologist Alvin Plantinga.
He married Betty Jane Meeker on October 9, 1948, and they had four children: Mark Timothy, Kenneth Paul, Sharon Elizabeth and Meryl Lee.
[1] His son Mark T. Bube is the General Secretary for Foreign Missions of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church.