• Led a weekend women’s retreat for Cornerstone Church in April on loving God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength.
• Interviewed for BreakPoint This Week on “Making Good Decisions about the End of Life.”
• Authored “Family Trees & Family Threes” in the Spring 2013 issue of Salvo magazine
• Interviewed in late April by Don Rupp, KTIS, Northwestern Media Radio about the study CBHD sponsored on ART and the Church.
• Interviewed in late June for an article on “3D Printing and Biotechnology” for Relevant Magazine.
• Collaborator with Megan Best on a multinational empirical research study examining attitudes and practices within the Christian church on ART issues.
• Facilitated the final theological bioethics roundtable discussion with graduate students and CBHD staff on Jeffrey P. Bishop’s recent book, The Anticipatory Corpse: Medicine, Power, and the Care of the Dying (University of Notre Dame, 2011).
Fearfully and Wonderfully Made
CBHD hosted two events in mid-April with Megan Best, BMed, MAAE, promoting her recently published book, Fearfully and Wonderfully Made: Ethics and the Beginning of Human Life (Matthias Media, 2012). Dr. Best was a 2009 GBEI Scholar with the Center and received a modest grant from CBHD that assisted in the background research for the volume. CBHD celebrated the publication of the volume by hosting a morning session with Dr. Best geared toward equipping pastors, and an evening event that was live-streamed and featured a lecture by Dr. Best with a response by Stephen Greggo, PsyD, professor of counseling at Trintiy Evangelical Divinity School. Audio and video of the evening lecture will be made available on cbhd.org.
In April and early May, CBHD sponsored and facilitated the U.S. portion of a multi-national study on the Attitudes and Practices of Assisted Reproductive Technologies within the Church. Dr. Megan Best was the lead investigator on a research team that included Elizabeth Hegedus, PhD, and Michael Sleasman, PhD. Th e study is the culmination of a portion of a 2009-2013 GBEI grant awarded to Dr. Best. Results of the study will be published on cbhd.org as they become available.
