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Emmanuel: The Word Made Flesh | Intersections | The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity Like baby’s breath breathing life into our dead nostrils, the gospel was authored by this Son in skin, and although he was placed in a small shell of time, time itself could not hold him captive, for ...

New INTERSECTIONS "Emmanuel: The Word Made Flesh" by Anna B. Vollema, PhD (Cand.)
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The Bioethics Monthly for November 2025:
+ INTERSECTIONS: Bryan Johnson vs. Bill Furlong: Renew the Mind, Don’t Worship the Body
+ CBHD Membership
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11.25.25 Peace terms for Ukraine, states consider assisted suicide, and the first Bible translation in the New World — The World and Everything In It Prospects for peace in Ukraine, more states consider assisted suicide, and the first Bible translated in America. Plus, Janie B. Cheaney on what we leave behind, a cow’s woolly hideout, and the Tuesda...

Our Executive Director and several friends of CBHD were interviewed about recent state-level moves to legalize assisted suicide. From "The World and Everything in It." The report begins at time stamp 18:11.
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Happy Thanksgiving!
Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
1 Thessalonians 5:16–18

The BIOETHICS WEEKLY:
+ NEW INTERSECTIONS – Bryan Johnson vs. Bill Furlong: Renew the Mind, Don’t Worship the Body
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+ Empathetic, Available, Cheap: When A.I. Offers What Doctors Don’t
+ Advocacy groups urge parents to avoid AI toys this holiday season
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NEW INTERSECTIONS – "Bryan Johnson vs. Bill Furlong: Renew the Mind, Don’t Worship the Body," by Anna B. Vollema, PhD (Cand.)
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The Bioethics Weekly:
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+ They Fell in Love With A.I. Chatbots — and Found Something Real
+ Genetically Engineered Babies Are Banned. Tech Titans Are Trying to Make One Anyway.
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This BIOETHICS WEEKLY: An Opportunity for CBHD: Please Pray
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+ Personalized gene editing helped one baby: can it be rolled out widely?
+ She Was Ready to Have Her 15th Child. Then Came the Felony Charges.
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The BIOETHICS MONTHLY email has just gone out, recapping our work in October. Read all about it: preview.mailerlite.io/preview/2174...

From the latest issue of Dignitas – Searching for Sleep: Sleep Hygiene as a Biomedical and Theological Problem by Todd T. W. Daly, PhD
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offer a theological understanding of sleep and sleeplessness, framing these and our practices surrounding them in God’s divine economy

This BIOETHICS WEEKLY:
Dignitas vol. 32, no. 1-2
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+Common IVF test misses some genetic abnormalities in embryos
+Music could help ease pain from surgery or illness. Scientists are listening
+Pig Kidney Removed From Transplant Patient After Nine Months
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This INTERSECTIONS article, "God’s Sovereignty in Barrenness" (www.cbhd.org/intersection...), is mentioned in a recent Christianity Today article, "There’s No Shame in Talking About Pregnancy Loss" (www.christianitytoday.com/2025/10/ther...)

NOW AVAILABLE—Dignitas vol. 32, no. 1-2 (Spring/Summer 2025)
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Palliative Sedation for Existential Suffering

The 35th Anniversary of Germany’s Embryo Protection Act

Searching for Sleep

The BIOETHICS Weekly:
+ NEW PODCAST: Don’t Die
+ CBHD Membership
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+ The Race to Make the Perfect Baby Is Creating an Ethical Mess
+ ‘Girl, Take Your Crazy Pills!’ Antidepressants Recast as a Hot Lifestyle Accessory
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Our latest MEMBERS ONLY EMAIL was sent this week, full of exclusive content, including an invitation to a members-only discussion of Guillermo del Toro’s new film adaptation of Frankenstein.

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In this episode of The Bioethics podcast, CBHD Research Scholar Anna Vollema and CBHD Research Analyst Heather Zeiger join CBHD Executive Director Matthew for a discussion of the Netflix documentary film Don’t Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever.
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This BIOETHICS Weekly:
+ A Science-Based Case for the Immortality of the Human Soul
+ Resources on Reproductive Technologies, IVF, and Embryos
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+ How dangerous are LLMs really?
+ He Was Expected to Get Alzheimer’s 25 Years Ago. Why Hasn’t He?
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We have a host of resources on IVF?

“Children: Blessing or Project?
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Baby-Making: The Fractured Fulfillment of Huxley's Brave New World”
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Further Reading
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A Science-Based Case for the Immortality of the Human Soul
by Denyse O'Leary
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In the Bioethics Weekly:
+ Our Most Read Content
+ + Celebrities and Surrogacy
+ + AI Claims Its First Casualty
+ + Abortion and Scripture
+ + Death Pods
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+ The AI Genetics Revolution Is Coming
+ How TikTok keeps its users scrolling for hours a day
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CURIOUS ABOUT OUR MOST-READ CONTENT? Trending articles include:

AI Claims Its First Casualty
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Abortion and Scripture, Part 1: A Whole-Life Pro-Life Stance in Biblical Law
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Celebrities and Surrogacy
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We are planning another Cohort in the new year. Watch for more information soon!

One participant summed up the Cohort experience this way:
“Thank you for this series. It has been amazingly informative and helpful as I thoughtfully navigate these issues in the light of faith.”

Maureen Condic, “The Science and Ethics of Emerging Biotechnologies,” CBHD Conference Plenary, 2025
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Matthew Eppinette, “To Evangelicals: IVF Bioethical Questions to Grapple With,” Christian Post
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Matthew Eppinette, “Tiny, Vulnerable Lives,” World
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Carter Snead, “Bioethics and the Body: Reframing the Discussion” CBHD Conference Plenary
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Jürgen-Burkhard Klautke, “Dying a ‘Good Death’ by Preparing for Eternity: Reclaiming the Forgotten Meaning of Euthanasia,” Dignitas 25, no. 3 (2018): 10–13
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We’ve just finished our latest Cohort, The Ethics of Life & Death. In case you weren’t able to participate, here is a small sampling of the resources we shared with the group:

Hans Madueme, “Thinking Theologically About Bioethics,” Dignitas 18, no. 3 (2011)
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In the BIOETHICS MONTHLY:
+ INTERSECTIONS Revisited: Christian Ministry in a Digital Age
+ PODCAST: Walking with Those Who Weep
+ VIDEO COURSE: A Christian Response to Developments in AI
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