THE BIOETHICS WEEKLY: Frozen Orphans: The Children of Embryo Adoption LESS THAN TWO WEEKS UNTIL POLYTECHNIC BIOETHICS – Join Us In Person OR Online preview.mailerlite.io/previe… Scientists Edit Human Embryo Genes With Startling Precision Anthropic Urges Global Pause in AI Development, Flags ‘Self-Improvement’ Risk The iPhone lowered the birth rate, new paper finds 2 scientists charged with bringing deactivated mpox virus into the US and lying to authorities MORE

IN TWO WEEKS: "Christian Hippocratism & The Internal Morality of NP Practice: The Unique Perspective of the Nurse Practitioner Ethicist" presented by Jesse Michael Kay, Assistant Professor, Baylor College of Medicine. REGISTER NOW to attend IN PERSON or ONLINE: cbhd.org/conference-2026

TWO WEEKS until our 33rd annual conference, POLYTECHNIC BIOETHICS, begins. The first lecture will be the Zimmerman Virtue Ethics Lecture: "The Virtues (and Vices) of an Ethic of Virtue" delivered by Gilbert Meilaender, PhD. Join us in person or online! Register now: cbhd.org/conference-2026

New INTERSECTIONS: "Frozen Orphans: The Children of Embryo Adoption" by Matt Yocum, MS Many in churches today are facing the same heart-wrenching experience my wife, Ann Marie, and I had—feeling deeply the call of God to grow our family, yet unable to do so naturally. cbhd.org/intersections/froze…

In the Bioethics Weekly: Christian Hippocratism & The Internal Morality of NP Practice [The Hottest Job in Healthcare]: The Unique Perspective of the Nurse Practitioner Ethicist preview.mailerlite.io/previe… Ozempic shows unexpected new side effect in the brain At the Epicenter of A.I., Pope Leo’s Warnings Are Dismissed Embryos made without sperm or eggs reveal why many pregnancies fail First pig liver and kidneys transplanted into a person — strategy could ease organ shortages Inside Putin’s $26 Billion Quest for Longevity MORE

A thoughtful engagement with the many issues arising around vaccines and public trust today featuring Richard K. Zimmerman, MD MPH MA (Bioethics) FAAFP FIDSA, tenured professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Family Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh. cmda.org/podcast/vaccines-th…

This BIOETHICS MONTHLY: So much crammed into a single update! preview.mailerlite.io/previe… Bored in a Digital Age Amplify CBHD’s Voice Join Us In Person or Online Making Physician-Assisted Suicide Unthinkable The Challenge of Pastoral Leadership Today: What Is Our Technological Age Doing to Us? Ethics & Medicine: Remembering the Life and Legacy of Robert D. Orr (1941–2021) CBHD Research Library Update MORE

Our friends in the Anglican tradition, and others, will be interested to know about the launch of The Anglican Bioethics Center. They're hosting two launch events, one tonight (June 2) and one next Tuesday (June 9), each at 5:30 Eastern. Both events will be livestreamed on their Facebook page: facebook.com/Anglicanbioethi…

The Wall Street Journal last week declared Nurse Practitioner "the Hottest Job in Healthcare." We already had lined up for this month's conference a plenary address entitled, "Christian Hippocratism & The Internal Morality of NP Practice: The Unique Perspective of the Nurse Practitioner Ethicist." And it's just one of six outstanding plenaries, workshops, and papers scheduled for June 25-27. Join us online OR in person! cbhd.org/conference-2026

This BIOETHICS WEEKLY: Bored in a Digital Age E&M Remembers Robert Orr Join Us in Person or Online preview.mailerlite.io/previe… Doctors’ AI Systems Are Hallucinating Nonexistent Medical Issues During Appointments With Patients Weight-Loss Drugs May Have Surprising Side Effect: Stalling Cancer Surgeon general’s office issues warning on screen time for children Ontario man dies of MAID after being assessed outside Tim Hortons Residents burn an Ebola treatment center in Congo as anger grows over the outbreak MORE

I was on The Coffee Hour today on @KFUOradio talking about physician-assisted suicide. This conversation happened because I wrote "Making Physician-Assisted Suicide Unthinkable" for Intersections by @BioethicsCenter. Links below. youtu.be/7mci7oaXywk?si=BheR…

Bored in a Digital Age cbhd.org/intersections/bored… Boredom is not merely neutral but potentially generative: It is the gateway to mind-wandering, the cognitive state in which the brain forms new connections, solves problems, and generates creative ideas. On this account, the real danger of the digital age is not boredom itself but our refusal to tolerate it. We have a self-defeating habit of reaching for the phone at the first twinge of discomfort, crowding out the very mental space in which our best thinking happens. ------- Dr. Jonathan Lett is Associate Professor of Theology and Director of the Faith, Science, and Technology Initiative at LeTourneau University. His teaching and research sit at the intersection of Christian doctrine, moral philosophy, and technology, and are animated by a pressing question: What does it mean to be human in a world being rapidly reshaped by technology?

Are you attending the Colson Center National Conference in Knoxville this week? Drop a comment below or send us a DM. Dr. Eppinette would love to meet up with you there!

The BIOETHICS WEEKLY Trusted National Voice CBHD Research Library 2026 Summer Conference preview.mailerlite.io/previe… The American Rebellion Against AI Is Gaining Steam Inside the Race to Develop a Test for the Rare Andes Hantavirus Tick bites surge, sending many to ER. Maps show where. Could this synthetic egg bring back extinct birds? Researchers urge caution Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing MORE

The CBHD Research Library is being set up in the LeTourneau University library this week!

In the BIOETHICS WEEKLY INTERSECTIONS: Making Physician-Assisted Suicide Unthinkable preview.mailerlite.io/previe… The New Wild West of AI Kids’ Toys Google Says Criminal Hackers Used A.I. to Find a Major Software Flaw A crisis of conscience spurred this Christian IVF doctor’s career pivot Nurse AI adoption lags behind doctors: survey Silicon Valley Wants to Put a Chip in Your Brain MORE

How do I get to CBHD's 2026 Annual Conference? cbhd.org/conference-2026 Drive Longview is an easy drive from many locations in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana. ‍ Fly and Drive East Texas Regional Airport (7 miles from campus) Shreveport, Louisiana (56 miles from campus) DFW (150 miles) Love Field, Dallas (139 miles) Bush Intercontinental, Houston (191 miles) Hobby, Houston (215 miles) Train Amtrak (2.2 miles from campus)

Making Physician-Assisted Suicide Unthinkable by Benjamin Parviz, PhD (cand.) cbhd.org/intersections/makin… Physician-assisted suicide (PAS) is now legally available in 13 U.S. states and Washington, DC, and to the more than 100 million residents of those jurisdictions. Following the removal of residency requirements from eligibility criteria in Oregon and Vermont in 2023, anyone who has the means to travel to those states can potentially receive PAS. More pointedly, all of your parishioners or fellow congregation members who could qualify can now receive PAS, regardless of which state your church is in. Till now, Christians have resisted PAS by working to keep it illegal or to slow its political and legal advance. Christians must reconsider what continued Christian resistance to PAS looks like.

NEW PODCAST EPISODE: The Challenge of Pastoral Leadership Today: What Is Our Technological Age Doing to Us? open.spotify.com/episode/1n6… If we are going to properly discern and embrace what God wants for us, that is, if we are going to be faithful to our vocation—if we are going to be the humans that God has made us to be—then we must also pay attention to the ways in which our age is actively shaping our habits and assumptions about the good life and what it means to be human. In other words, we are compelled to contemplate not only What is the will of God? but also What are we being conformed to? This, I suggest, is one of the most urgent tasks and challenges of pastoral leadership and care today—helping our congregations become more attuned to what our technological age is doing to us.

The Bioethics MONTHLY: Dementia, Grandpa Hoy, and the Truth of Our Personhood Join Us in Longview or Online—There Is No Wrong Way to Attend! Manufactured Loneliness preview.mailerlite.io/previe… Number of AI chatbots ignoring human instructions increasing, study says A woman’s uterus has been kept alive outside the body for the first time Can AI be a ‘child of God’? Inside Anthropic’s meeting with Christian leaders. MORE