Joins Staff as Director of Development In November, Bill Van Wyngaarden joined the CBHD staff, bringing more than 20 years of development and project management experience with a variety of boards and not-for-profit organizations. As part of his desire to build relationships with current and potential CBHD supporters, Bill has a special interest in assisting individuals who would like to encourage their church to become regular supporters of CBHD. If you would like to discuss the possibility of your church partnering with the Center, please contact Bill at (847) 317-7026 or at billv@cbhd.org.
Strategy Recognizing that the worldwide church has not been nearly as effective as it could be in engaging bioethics and related spiritual issues and equipping its members to do so, the global Lausanne movement has decided that more must be done. To that end, it has invited CBHD President John Kilner to join with key leaders from Europe, Asia, and Australia to make up a severalperson steering group for a team of 30 leaders from all parts of the world. The team will analyze challenges and develop engagement strategies during the next year, meet for a week next fall in Thailand to refine the work, and launch the dissemination process to the church worldwide.
Guided by CBHD’s Director of Biotech Ethics C. Christopher Hook, M.D., the Center’s Biotech Working Group is busy working on two foundation-funded projects. One project is developing a theology of biotechnology. The other is addressing the ethics of expanding human capacities through drug, genetic, and cybernetic interventions. Both projects will result in an array of articles, books, and other educational resources. Under the coordination of CBHD’s Director of Clinical Ethics Robert Orr, M.D., the Center’s Clinical Ethics Working Group continues to collaborate with the AMA’s Virtual Mentor program to offer Center commentaries on clinical ethics cases which are posted on the AMA and CBHD websites.
