CBHD Moving to LeTourneau University

The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity (CBHD) is delighted to announce that we are relocating to LeTourneau University in Longview, Texas
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How Should We Then Die? A Christian Response to Physician-Assisted Death

Ewan Goligher, MD, PhD, FRCPC
Plenary Address from Living in the Biotech Century: The First 25 Years
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Resources for Understanding Assisted Suicide

A collection of articles from CBHD explaining physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia as well as better alternatives.
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Keith Plummer, PhD

Cairn University
Dr. Plummer has been a faculty member at Cairn University since 2010 and is currently Dean of the School of Divinity.
Second Annual Virtue Ethics Lecture
Plenary Address - Discipled by Our Devices: Spiritual
Formation in Our Technological Age
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Fetal Tissue Research & Christian Bioethics:

A Review of the Scientific Developments, Policy Landscape, and Ethical Considerations
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The Theology and Dignity of Death: Karl Rahner’s Lessons for Today

The Theology and Dignity of Death: Karl Rahner’s Lessons for Today

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Edward R. Grant, JD, MA
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March 10, 2026
Death poses many paradoxes. Is it a purely natural event, or in some sense unnatural? An end, or also a beginning? What is the state of our soul after our passing? How should we understand what death is? And why is it that we die the death we die?
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Five Questions: Virtue Formation in Applied Christian Education

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Steven D. Mason, PhD
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February 24, 2026

On Shepherding Embodied Souls

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Zak Mellgren, MA
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February 10, 2026

Receiving Care with Gratitude

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Kenneth C. Way, PhD
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January 13, 2026

latest dignitas issue

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Editorial (Spring/Summer 2025)
Reviving Organs, Redefining Death? The Ethical Controversy Over Normothermic Regional Perfusion and the Way Around It
Palliative Sedation for Existential Suffering: The Enduring Wisdom of the Hippocratic Oath
The 35th Anniversary of Germany’s Embryo Protection Act: Model Legislation for the Ethical Protection of Human Embryos
Searching for Sleep: Sleep Hygiene as a Biomedical and Theological Problem
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