Our 28th Annual Conference, Bioethics & the Body, took place online June 24-26. While we had hoped to be able to meet in person, the COVID-19 pandemic prevented that for a second year. We are hoping and planning to meet in person in 2022. In conjunction with the 28th Annual Conference, we were able to offer four courses for academic credit along with a preconference workshop entitled "Ethical Questions on Human Fetal Tissue Research." This workshop anticipates a substantial report CBHD will be publishing in 2022 on fetal tissue research and Christian Bioethics.
In November, we began evaluating paper proposals for our 29th Annual Conference, Integrity & Conscience: Bioethics & the Professions.
Staff News
In June, Annelise Olson Troll, CBHD Communications & Marketing Manager, gave birth to a healthy baby she and her husband Ian named Clara.
CBHD Executive Director Matthew Eppinette, MBA, PhD, spoke in Trinity International University's Graduate and Divinity School chapel series entitled “The Future for the Gospel: The Church and Technology," addressing “Christian Faithfulness and Transhumanism.”
Dr. Eppinette delivered a workshop at the annual meeting of the Christian Legal Society in San Antonio, Texas on "Artificial Intelligence, Robots, Cyborgs, Transhumanism, and the Law."
COVID Vaccine Ethics
In August, we posted a substantial update to our Coronavirus Vaccine Ethics article posted prominently at cbhd.org. We are grateful to have heard from many, many people that the article has been helpful for their thinking and in praxis within church, work and other contexts.
Bioethics at Trinity
Michael Sleasman, PhD, Director of Bioethics Degree Programs at Trinity International University, opened a Graduate and Divinity School chapel series entitled “The Future for the Gospel: The Church and Technology” with an address on “Thinking Theologically About Technology.”
Pastoral Care & Support
In October, CBHD hosted a group of District Superintendents from the Evangelical Free Church of America (EFCA) for a discussion of ways in which bioethics affects the work of pastors and churches and ways in which CBHD might better serve those pastors and churches.
