This episode of the podcast features Executive Director Matthew Eppinette's update from this year’s conference on CBHD’s future in light of the changes coming at our host institution, Trinity. Show Notes: Give Now: https://www.tiu.edu/giving/bioethics/ Our Latest Letter CBHD Case for Giving...
Lucidity Pictures and Cradled in Glass: https://luciditypictures.com/projects/cradled-in-glass/ International Institute or Restorative Reproductive Medicine: https://iirrm.org/ Register for Living in the Biotech Century: The First 25 Years https://www.cbhd.org/conference
Show Notes "AI and All Its Splendors," Christianity Today "AI Is Making Dating Even Harder," Men’s Health Magazine "Moral Resilience: Nurses experience deep suffering when they can’t act according to their moral compass. Our research shows a way forward," Aeon "What is a Relational Virtue?" Philosophical Studies...
Show Notes: “The World Isn’t Ready for What Comes After I.V.F.” by Ari Schulman, New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/09/opinion/ivf-debate.html “Open Wallets, Empty Hearts” by Ari Schulman, The New Atlantis https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/open-wallets-empty-hearts “Silicon Valley’s Trendy Ethic: Effective Altruism” by Heather Zeiger, Mind Matters News https://mindmatters.ai/2024/09/silicon-valleys-trendy-ethic-effective-altruism/ “I was adopted from China as a baby. I’m st...
In this episode of The Bioethics Podcast, we have one of the most powerful pieces we have ever published. It is read for us by the author, Lori Way, and it comes from her experience caring for her husband through illness, recovery, and a “new normal.” This piece is part of our "Faces of the Church Series" of articles, which are posted on our Intersections Forum at our website, https://www.cbhd.org/ Our Intersections Forum is meant to discuss, equip, and inspire pastors, ministry leaders, and lay...
In this episode of the podcast, CBHD Research Scholar Anna Vollema and CBHD Research Analyst Heather Zeiger join CBHD Executive Director Matthew Eppinette for a discussion of several recent bioethics-related news items. Support the work of The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity: https://www.tiu.edu/giving/bioethics/ Show Notes: “What Silicon Valley’s New Ethical Thinking Gets Right–And Wrong,” Christianity Today Todd Daly, "The New Asceticism: Biohacking the Body for Greater Longevit...
We at CBHD have been addressing reproductive technologies throughout our history. In 2017, at our 24th annual conference, we held a colloquium on Catholic, Protestant, & Orthodox Approaches to Reproductive Technologies. Three speakers walked through their convictional approach to these issues, each in turn. This episode of the bioethics podcast is the third of three that carries these talks. In the first episode, Marie T. Hilliard, JCL, PhD, RN, of the National Catholic Bioethics Center. pre...
This episode is the second in a series of three looking at reproductive technologies from Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox perspectives. In the first episode, Marie T. Hilliard of the National Catholic Bioethics Center presented a Catholic approach to Reproductive technologies . This episode has Scott B. Rae, PhD, of Talbot School of Theology, Biola University, with a protestant approach. The series will conclude in the next episode with Gayle E. Woloschak, PhD, on an Orthodox approach....
Reproductive technologies, especially in vitro fertilization (IVF), remain at the forefront of the news and societal conversation in 2024. In 2017, at our 24th annual conference, we held a colloquium on Catholic, Protestant, & Orthodox Approaches to Reproductive Technologies. Three speakers walked through their convictional approach to these issues, each in turn. This episode, then, begins a series of three episodes that will carry these talks. The first, in this episode, is by Marie T. Hill...
Show Notes: Conference Information and Registration: https://www.cbhd.org/conference Register for the Friday Night Dinner: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/9fyzevg/lp/c604e9b9-db55-45c4-85f9-81ae6554caf8
Our 31st annual conference, "The Future of Health: Faith, Ethics, and Our MedTech World," will take place June 27-29 of this year on the Campus of Trinity International University in Deerfield, Illinois. For more information and to register, visit https://www.cbhd.org/conference
CBHD Research Analyst Heather Zeiger interviews Yves Moreau, professor of engineering at the University of Leuven, Belgium. His research is located at the interface between artificial intelligence and genetics, focusing in particular on mass surveillance technology. SHOW NOTES "Unethical studies on Chinese minority groups are being retracted — but not fast enough, critics say," Nature, https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00170-0 "US company must stop supplying China’s regime with DNA surv...
As you may know, April marks the end of our fiscal year, so our Executive Director, Dr. Eppinette, provides updates on some of the work we’ve been doing and some of the plans we have for the future. Read the full letter Give Now: https://give.tiu.edu/CBHD
This is a special episode of the podcast featuring the second half of our own Barbenheimer , a phenomenon you may remember from the summer of 2023 when both Greta Gerwig’s Barbie movie and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenhiemer were in theaters. Both of these movies highlight themes relevant to our consideration of bioethics, and so, with Oscar season upon us, we are featuring pieces by CBHD staff members exploring the nexus of film and bioethics. In this episode, CBHD Research Analyst Heather Zeiger p...
This is a special episode of the podcast featuring the first half of our own "Barbenheimer," a phenomenon you may remember from the summer of 2023 when both Greta Gerwig’s Barbie Movie and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer were in theaters. Both of these movies highlight themes relevant to our consideration of bioethics, and so with Oscar season upon us, we are featuring pieces in this episode and the next by CBHD staff members exploring the nexus of film and bioethics. In this episode, CBHD Resea...
In this talk, Dr. Stephen Greggo , Chair of the Counseling Department and Professor of Counseling at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, part of our host institution, responds to and extends Dr. Megan Best’s presentation, which we featured on the previous episode of the bioethics podcast, on the moral status of the embryo and other ethical issues that arise at the beginning of life, which are especially relevant to the conversations happening in the wake of the Alabama Supreme Court’s recent ru...
The recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling regarding cryogenically preserved human embryos raises numerous questions about the process of in vitro fertilization (IVF), the moral status of human embryos, the cryopreservation of embryos, the status of embryos as a matter of law, and more. These are questions that we at The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity have been addressing for 30 years now. We have a number of resources on our website that speak to these and other questions surrounding rep...
This episode of the podcast features an article written by our Executive Director on recent developments in artificial intelligence, particularly within the realm of healthcare. What do we need to know about these rapidly developing new technologies, and how might Christians think about and respond to AI? Show Notes: FREE Lecture, in person OR online, "How Assisted Dying Creates New Realities: Looking back on 40 Years of Euthanasia Experience," by Theo Boer, PhD. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bio...
As we close out 2023, our Executive Director wanted to take a few minutes to talk about where we’ve been this year and where we’re planning to go next year. Show Notes: Our 31st annual conference, The Future of Health: Faith, Ethics, and our MedTech World , June 27–29, 2024 Intersections: " Artificial Intelligence: More than Byte-Sized Issues " YouTube: " Our Executive Director On the Newly Approved CRISPR Gene Editing Treatment " Our thought leadership in the arena of bioethics is more crucial ...
In this episode of the podcast, we try something new and different. CBHD Executive Director Matthew Eppinette, CBHD Research Scholar Anna Vollema, and CBHD Research Analyst Heather Zeiger discuss current bioethics news items posted on bioethics.com . Topics they discuss include artificial intelligence, CAR-T therapy, medical debt, and ways churches and individuals might care well for those in their congregations and communities who are going through a time of illness. To keep up with all of the ...
In this episode of the podcast—our second ever video episode—we have an address given by William Hurlbut, MD , of Stanford University on genomic editing. This is a topic that is much in the news – in fact, the United Kingdom has just become the first country to approve a treatment using the gene editing technique known as CRISPR . But what, exactly is genomic editing, what opportunities does it provide, what challenges come with it, and for those of the Christian faith, how do our theological be...
In this edition of the podcast, our Executive Director, Matthew Eppinettte, provides an update on the work of The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity, framed by what he sees as the most pressing bioethics issues of the coming years. We cannot do the work of unpacking and addressing these vital topics without your help. Your donation today will help us continue to advance our research on these and other vital areas of life and health. With your help—and only with your help—will we be able to...
This episode of the podcast features our Executive Director's Plenary Address from 30th annual summer conference. In the talk, he makes a few comments on the history of bioethics over the past 30 years before spending the bulk of the time talking about the present state of bioethics and what it might look like in the coming years. Are you a member of CBHD? If so, thank you! If not, join today. By becoming a member of The Center of Bioethics & Human Dignity, you gain access to content from th...
Welcome to our first video podcast! This episode features Dr. Gilbert Meilaender’s presentation of the 2023 John F. Kilner Bioethics Lectureship from March of this year. The lecture is entitled "The Meaning of Children: Competing Narratives," and it encourages us to consider whether it is best to view children as gifts to be received or projects to be undertaken, and what each view indicates regarding our own humanity. Also, please save the date June 27–29, 2024, for our 31st annual conference, ...
As we prepare for our 30th annual conference, this episode of The Bioethics Podcast features a plenary addresses from our 2002 conference, "Bioethics at the Bedside." The speaker is the late Dr. Edmund Pellegrino, and in this address he looks at issues of justice with respect to the physician-patient relationship. Edmund D. Pellegrino, MD was Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Medical Ethics at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and the founding director of the Center for Clinical Bioethics, which ...
As we prepare for our 30th annual conference – The Christian Stake in Bioethics Revisited , June 22-24, available in person and online – this podcast episode features another of the plenary addresses from the very first conference, The Christian Stake in Bioethics , in 1994. Our speaker in this episode is the late Dr. Allen Verhey, and in this address, he takes a careful look at the concept of autonomy and compares it to Martin Luther’s Freedom of the Christian. Dr. Allen Verhey was published wi...
In this episode of The Bioethics Podcast, CBHD Executive Director Matthew Eppinette shares an update on the Center. In short, as we approach the end of our fiscal year on April 30, we need to raise $60,000 to maintain our momentum and continue providing leadership in supporting and training pastors and Christian thought leaders in the critically strategic areas of bioethics. The need for sound, biblical wisdom on the issues of bioethics has never been greater. We can meet these challenges only w...
In this episode of the podcast, we have a recent lecture by Michael J. Sleasman, PhD, Associate Professor of Bioethics and Director of Bioethics Degree Programs at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and Trinity International University. His lecture is entitled “From Science Fiction to Reality: The Bioethics of Emerging Technologies”
As we look forward to our 30th annual conference – The Christian Stake in Bioethics Revisited , June 22-24 – this episode of the podcast looks back to the very first address from the very first conference, way back in May of 1994. In this address, Dr. Cameron identifies a profound cultural shift in public life, in institutions, and in professions that has seen each of these areas move away from Judeo-Christian underpinnings. Cameron focuses on medicine and what he identifies, from the Hippocrati...
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