First, CBHD Membership is now open -- become a member today! For information on the benefits of membership and to join, visit https://www.cbhd.org/sign-up Second, Conference Registration is now open -- and early bird pricing is in effect! The theme for this, our 30th annual conference, is The Christian Stake in Bioethics Revisited: Crucial Issues of Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. It will take place June 22-24 on the campus of Trinity International University in Deerfield, Illinois. For more inf...
Feb 01, 2023•5 min•Season 23Ep. 2
Our first podcast episode of 2023 features the latest article from our Intersections forum, which is now hosted on our all-new website at cbhd.org . The article is entitled " Embodied Souls and Ensouled Bodies ," and it was written by our own Bryan Just, MA. Bryan also serves as our reader for this episode. If you had a chance yet, please do stop by and check out the all-new cbhd.org. It has a clean, easy-to-navigate design and works equally well on desktops, laptops, tablets, and phones....
Jan 25, 2023•12 min•Season 23Ep. 1
In this episode of the podcast, CBHD Executive Director Matthew Eppinette provides an end-of-year update and a preview of things to come in 2023. The challenges to life and health have only increased in significance. Genuinely Christian engagement is needed as much now as it has ever been. Please give as generously as you are able today! And please, please keep us in your prayers. Thank you in advance for your support. We are incredibly grateful for the work that has been given to us to do and f...
Dec 28, 2022•11 min•Season 22Ep. 10
This episode of The Bioethics Podcast marks the launch of an all new cbhd.org website . The new website has a new look and feel and is mobile-friendly! In addition, we are moving our Intersections Forum (and the other content from Everyday Bioethics) to cbhd.org. To mark this occasion, we’ve reposted one of the first Intersections entries, entitled “Why Intersections?,” this time titling it “‘Why Intersections?’ Revisited ,” and adding an editor’s note of introduction. The latest Intersections e...
Dec 12, 2022•11 min•Season 22Ep. 9
This episode is all about a new book just released by The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity entitled Bioethics in Real Life: Lessons We’re Learning from COVID-19 . While we may be a bit weary of thinking about COVID, this book is actually forward-looking. It asks: what can we take away from the COVID experience that will help us face similar challenges that will surely arise in the future? CBHD Executive Director Matthew Eppinette introduces the book, its editors, its authors, and its cha...
Oct 27, 2022•17 min•Season 22Ep. 8
At the start of this semester, one of our MA in Bioethics students, Stephen Largent, wrote a letter describing his appreciation for CBHD's work, and urging those who can to financially support the work of the center. Here is the letter in it's entirety: "Dear Friend of CBHD, The work of The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity is a great help to me as a student, and I know it will continue to help me long after I finish my college years here at Trinity International University. My name is St...
Oct 06, 2022•5 min•Season 22Ep. 7
In this episode of the podcast, CBHD Executive Director Matthew Eppinette interviews Heather Zeiger, CBHD Research Analyst as well as editor and project manager of our recently released report on “Fetal Tissue Research and Christian Bioethics.” This report has been several years in the making, and arrives at a particularly important time – fetal tissue research has been much in the news during the development of the COVID vaccines, and the recent Dobbs decision by the U.S. Supreme Court may very...
Sep 01, 2022•36 min•Season 22Ep. 6
CBHD Executive Director, Matthew Eppinette, interviews his senior pastor, Bo Collins regarding his recent attendance at CBHD's summer conference Pastors Workshop in Deerfield Illinois at the end of June. Bo gives insight and feedback into the topics covered within the workshop, and even turns the tables on Matthew; the interviewer becomes the interviewee! Bo is from Birmingham, AL. He holds degrees from the University of Alabama in Birmingham (BA, English) and Covenant Theological Seminary (MDiv...
Aug 02, 2022•33 min•Season 22Ep. 5
This episode features Dr. Jeff Barrows (Senior Vice President of Bioethics and Public Policy for the Christian Medical & Dental Associations) and will provide stories of conscience involving healthcare professionals seeking to practice medicine according to Biblical and Hippocratic principles, but have been confronted with scenarios in which they were faced with a choice of either violating their conscience or the possibility of losing employment. Dr. Barrows will also briefly discuss the fr...
Jul 07, 2022•37 min•Season 22Ep. 4
Join us as we hear Bryan Just read an Introduction to Reproductive Technologies by Dr. Brent Waters who is part of the Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity as a Senior Fellow. This comes to us at the perfect time as our Pastors Conference, in conjunction with our CBHD Annual Conference, focuses on Reproductive Technologies. If you or someone you know is a pastor or church leader, please pass along the FREE pastors workshop website at https://pastorsconference.cbhd.org.
Jun 15, 2022•13 min•Season 22Ep. 3
Join the CBHD staff as we discuss the general topic of bioethics, meet team members you may not know yet, and discuss what the near future holds for the center!
May 27, 2022•51 min•Season 22Ep. 2
Although our plan was to start our season earlier this year, we're now starting season 22 with a tribute to Robert D. Orr. His legacy in medical ethics will be remembered in many ways, and we count ourselves here at CBHD lucky that we are one of those many ways through the Robert D. Orr Endowed Fellowship. This tribute was originally published in our Spring/Summer 2021 Issue of Dignitas , authored by John Kilner, and read by Bryan Just.
May 17, 2022•8 min•Season 22Ep. 1
Anna Vollema works at the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity where she serves as the Research Analyst and Robert D. Orr Fellow. She holds a double MA in Old and New Testament from Talbot School of Theology in southern California. She continues her education at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, seeking to better her knowledge of the character of God through obtaining a PhD in Old Testament. She previously taught Elementary Greek for the school, and the excellence of her students only deepe...
Dec 21, 2021•57 min•Season 21Ep. 14
This episode of the podcast features an interview with Kristina Twitty, a graduate of the MA Bioethics program here at our host institution, Trinity International University . In this interview, we’ll get to know Kristina and hear about how she came to be interested in the issues of bioethics. And she’ll tell us about a new venture she’s started to assist people in thinking through the personal implications of various decisions regarding life and health, particularly choices around reproductive ...
Dec 02, 2021•33 min•Season 21Ep. 13
This edition of the podcast features a talk by CBHD Executive Director Matthew Eppinette, MBA, PhD, entitled "Transhumanism and Christian Faithfulness." The talk was originally presented in Trinity’s Graduate and Divinity School chapel on November 16, 2021. The address is part of a semester-long series on Technology and the Church, and all of the messages in this series are available on Trinity International University’s YouTube channel ....
Nov 18, 2021•27 min•Season 21Ep. 12
In this episode of the podcast, Anna Vollema, CBHD's Robert D. Orr Endowed Fellow, reads "Disposition of the Heart," written by Jessica Garske, MDiv. This article was originally published on Intersections and is the first in a three-part series on disability. Jessica holds an MDiv with a concentration in Missions and Intercultural Studies from Talbot School of Theology. Her master's thesis offers church leaders a model of disability conceptualized from the Christian worldview which seeks to help...
Nov 05, 2021•12 min•Season 21Ep. 11
In this episode the Executive Director of CBHD, Matthew Eppinette, PhD, interviews CBHD's former Robert D. Orr Fellow, Wilson Jeremiah, MA.
Oct 22, 2021•23 min•Season 21Ep. 10
The following lecture by Allen Verhey, MD, was originally presented at our 20th annual conference in 2013. All sessions from this conference are available to CBHD members here: cbhd.org/resources/audio/2013-health-human-flourishing-conference Interested in becoming a CBHD member? Learn more here: cbhd.org/subscribe
Oct 08, 2021•59 min•Season 21Ep. 9
Did you miss the live sessions of our 28th annual conference, Bioethics & the Body ? It's not too late! Don't miss your chance to learn from our amazing lineup of plenary speakers and workshops. Register now through July 3rd and receive access to the recorded versions of all of our conference sessions through July 31st: http://cbhd.org/conf2021
Jun 28, 2021•2 min
The following lecture by Robert D. Orr, MD, was originally presented at Cutting Edge Bioethics: Human Life on the Line in 2005. All sessions from this conference are available to CBHD members here: cbhd.org/premium-content/2005-cutting-edge-bioethics-dallas-tx-archive Interested in becoming a CBHD member? Learn more here: cbhd.org/subscribe
Jun 03, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Season 21Ep. 8
The following lecture by D. A. Carson, PhD was originally presented at CBHD's 26th Annual Conference Taking Care: Perspectives for the End of Life . All conference sessions are available for purchase here: https://cbhd.org/content/2019-taking-care-perspectives-end-life-conference-audio
Jun 03, 2021•49 min•Season 21Ep. 7
In this episode of the podcast, Bryan Just, CBHD's Event & Executive Services Manager, addresses a crucial and much-needed skill to manage today's MedTech world. Bryan's article comes to us from our Intersections forum which is located on our website, Everydaybioethics.com.
Apr 27, 2021•9 min•Season 21Ep. 6
Help CBHD finish its fiscal year by donating a financial gift at cbhd.org/give-online
Apr 14, 2021•4 min
The following lecture by Nigel M. de S. Cameron, PhD, MBA was originally presented at 2015 Summer conference "Science, Research, and the Limits of Bioethics." The enduring legacy of Hippocrates lies in his establishment of medicine as both a scientific and a human enterprise, the foundation not merely for medical practice but the core cultural notion of a profession—an effort founded on both skill and values, with accountability for both baked into the community of those thus committed. The deve...
Mar 30, 2021•39 min•Season 21Ep. 5
This episode is an update of our recent article "Corona Virus Vaccine Ethics."
Mar 18, 2021•9 min•Season 21Ep. 4
David Prentice, PhD, of the Family Research Council, on "Prenatal Diagnosis: An Overview of Testing Methods, Their Accuracy, Availability, and Use" at the "Managing an Unexpected Prenatal Diagnosis: Critical Considerations for Counselors, Clinicians, and Friends" Conference (July 18, 2013) held at Trinity International University. Co-sponsored by Jerome Lejeune Foundation, USA; The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity; Family Research Council; and Med Students for Life...
Mar 04, 2021•38 min•Season 21Ep. 3
Learn more about our upcoming summer conference at cbhd.org/conf2021
Feb 22, 2021•2 min•Season 21Ep. 3
This episode of The Bioethics Podcast will cover the five following ethical considerations in regards to the current Covid-19 vaccines: -Whether fast-tracked vaccines that short-cut Phase 3 trials, as in the case of two vaccines out of Russia and three out of China, are safe . -Whether Emergency Use Authorization by the U.S. FDA of any of the vaccine candidates is valid . -Whether challenge trials are ethical, as in the case of the Imperial College of London trial in the UK . -Whether there is a...
Feb 17, 2021•46 min•Season 21Ep. 2
This podcast episode features a session from our 2020 conference, Bioethics in Real Life: Lessons We're Learning from Covid-19. In it, Joseph Wiinikka-Lydon addresses moral injury in the time of Covid-19.
Feb 03, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Season 21Ep. 1
Amidst the bustle of Black Friday, Cyber Monday, #GivingTuesday, and holiday parties, we may forget it is also the season of Advent. In this strange cultural juxtaposition of commercialism gone awry and theologically rich celebrations of historic Christian significance, several thoughts come to mind as we prepare for our holiday celebrations.
Dec 21, 2020•9 min•Season 20Ep. 14
