• Contributed two Biohazards columns for Salvo magazine, on “Uncharted: Medical Care Dilemmas We Face,” and “Learning from Failure: Credible Scientific Research.”
• Taught a 6-week series on “Thinking through Life’s Bioethics Question as a Christian,” at an adult education class at College Church of Wheaton.
• Spoke on “Medicine, Technology, and Living the Faithful Christian Life” to an adult education class at College Church of Wheaton in May. HEATHER ZEIGER, MS, MA
• Published articles on “Synthetic Biology and Venter’s Life at the Speed of Light” (March) and “Gene Editing Technology” (April) on Bioethics.com
• Since May, has been contributing monthly essays to the blog for Salvo magazine.
• Presented the paper, “Ex Bonitate Dei: Participatory Metaphysics and Divine Goodness in Arminius’s Argument from Creation” at the Evangelical Theological Society’s Midwest regional conference.
• Organized and facilitated the spring theological bioethics roundtable discussions with graduate students and CBHD staff on Christology and Ethics, ed. F. LeRon Shults and Brent Waters (Eerdmans, 2010).
• Accepted admission to the PhD program in Systematic Theology at the University of Toronto, Wycliffe College.
Empirical Study on Clergy and Bioethics
Beginning in late June, CBHD is sponsoring a study led by Primary Investigator Paige Cunningham examining the preparation and comfort level of clergy in responding to bioethics issues in their congregations, as well as exploring the frequency with which clergy are presented with a wide range of bioethical issues that might arise in their pastoral ministry. Paige developed the study as part of her ongoing doctoral studies in collaboration with Michael Sleasman and Marie Butson (CBHD Spring Intern).
With Gratitude
Without the assistance of our part-time office and research staff, many of the things that CBHD does would not be possible. All of us at the Center express immense gratitude to the following staff for their contributions to the Center and our work over the past two years, each instrumental to the continued improvement in quality and productivity in their areas of respective responsibility. We wish them well in their future endeavors.
Marta Vergara, MA – Office Assistant.
Joel Chopp, MA – Research Assistant.
