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The Center’s research seeks to provide a variety of volumes aimed across the spectrum of academic and popular literature to address the pressing ethical issues of our day at the intersection of biomedicine, biotechnology, and our common humanity. These volumes include current research projects involving Center staff, the facilitation of Center sponsored monographs and collaborative projects involving consultants, fellows, and affiliates, ongoing book series, and introductory materials explaining the basic issues raised in bioethics. The following are a list of current research projects:

Robert D. Orr, MD, published a volume of case studies for clergy and medical professionals (Eerdmans, 2009). This volume, Medical Ethics and the Faith Factor: A Handbook for Clergy and Health Care Professionals, appears in the Center’s series Critical Issues in Bioethics.

David P. Gushee, PhD, is in the research and composition stage of a volume on the sanctity of life (Eerdmans). This volume will appear in the Center’s series Critical Issues in Bioethics.

Michael J. Sleasman, PhD, is the General Editor along with C. Ben Mitchell, PhD for the International Dictionary of Christian Bioethics (Zondervan). The Center is providing research support to this reference volume which will include numerous CBHD consultants, fellows, and affiliates.

The Center has partnered with to novelist Austin Boyd to serve as a consultant on a series of biotech novels, the first of which is under contract with Zondervan. The series is tentatively entitled, “The Chimera Chronicles.”