Updates & Activities - Spring 2017

Paige Cunningham, JD, PhD (Cand.)

• Was featured in several radio interviews discussing topics including human-pig chimeras, and the importance of the body in research and death practices.
• Attended the second annual Evangelicals for Life conference in January and participated in a panel session called “Death and Disease—Respecting Human Dignity Throughout All of Life.”
• Contributed an essay on the 20th anniversary of the cloning of Dolly, for Salvo’s Winter 2016 issue.
• Presented a webinar for Global4Justice on abortion and biblical justice.
• Was interviewed on Chris Fabry Live about the Women’s Marches in January.
• Was quoted in World magazine providing a bioethical perspective on IVF practices and surplus frozen embryos.

Michael Sleasman, PhD

• Published “Christian Physicians: Reclaiming Integrity through Conscience, Philanthropia, and Vocation,” co-authored with Greg Rutecki, in the December 2016 issue of Christian Bioethics. The article explores the notion of an integrated Christian medical professionalism.

Academy of Fellows Consultation

In early February, CBHD hosted our 6th Academy of Fellows Consultation. This year’s theme was “Bioethics and Being Human,” exploring fundamental aspects of what it means to be me human in light of advances in medicine, science, and technology, and anticipating the theme for the Center’s 25th Summer Conference in 2018. Public sessions included lectures by Daniel Treier, PhD, and CBHD Distinguished Fellow Dennis Hollinger, PhD. Treier presented on theological anthropology with an emphasis on human finitude, while Hollinger explored what we should not change about being human in an age of biotechnology. Additional presentations by Fellows continued exploring the theme in closed-door sessions. Videos of the presentations will be available on the Center’s YouTube Channel in the coming weeks.

Theological Bioethics Roundtables

During the Fall and Spring semesters, CBHD continued our tradition of hosting theological bioethics roundtable discussions. Now in its sixth year, these sessions provide an opportunity for CBHD research staff to interact with graduate and doctoral students at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School so as to foster theological reflection and engagement in bioethics. The texts for this year’s discussions were Brian Brock, Christian Ethics in a Technological Age, and Richard Lints, Identity and Idolatry: The Image of God and Its Inversion.

Coming Soon: Contemporary Issues in Reproductive Technology