Faith in Healthcare

Dr. Brick Lantz, CMDA’s Vice President of Advocacy and Bioethics, joins host Dr. Mike Chupp for another Q&A exploring difficult ethics questions facing Christian healthcare professionals. From pronouns and conscience concerns to IVF and end-of-life care, they discuss how you can respond when a patient’s request or an employer’s expectations conflict with your faith and medical judgment, considering what it means to hold to the truth while providing excellent care and loving the person in front of you.

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How do you explain why you’re pro-life to someone who doesn’t share your faith? Scott Klusendorf, president of Life Training Institute and author of The Case for Life: Equipping Christians to Engage the Culture, joins Dr. Mike Chupp and Dr. Brick Lantz to discuss making a clear, reasoned case for the unborn and asking thoughtful questions when conversations become tense. They explore the role of healthcare professionals in these discussions and a question that touches every patient: Is human value inherent, or does it depend on what a person can do?

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Dr. Matthew Loftus joins Dr. Mike Chupp to explore the growing influence of therapy language and what happens when it shapes how the church understands and responds to hardship. A family physician practicing in rural Kenya, Dr. Loftus shares the patterns he’s observing and discusses his new book, Resisting Therapy Culture: The Dangers of Pop Psychology and How the Church Can Respond. He also speaks candidly about his own experience with depression, bringing a personal perspective to the conversation about mental health and faith.

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What happens when we evaluate marriage, IVF, surrogacy, and reproductive technology from the perspective of the child instead of the adult? Katy Faust, founder and president of Them Before Us, joins Faith in Health Care to explain the philosophy behind her work and the Greater Than campaign, a coalition seeking to challenge Obergefell v. Hodges and restore what Faust describes as a child-centered understanding of marriage and family. Katy discusses some of today’s most difficult questions surrounding IVF, embryo freezing, sperm and egg donation, surrogacy, same-sex parenting, divorce, infertility, and emerging reproductive technologies. She explains why she believes Christians should scrutinize these practices through the lens of children’s rights, human dignity, and biblical teaching. The conversation also explores how Christians can hold firm convictions while maintaining genuine relationships with people who disagree. Katy shares her own family experience, her approach to truth and compassion, and why she believes Christians must distinguish between loving individuals and evaluating ideas or public policy. This is a challenging conversation about children, family, reproductive technology, Christian ethics, and the rapidly changing meaning of parenthood.

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Physician assistant Valerie Kloosterman joins Dr. Mike Chupp and Dr. Brick Lantz to share how holding to her Christian convictions cost her the job and professional community she had spent 17 years building. Despite exemplary performance reviews and no prior discipline, Valerie faced a choice between preserving her career and remaining true to her beliefs. Her testimony brings the personal cost of that decision into focus and invites Christian healthcare professionals to consider what faithfulness looks like when their convictions are put to the test.

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What happens when God calls you to serve—even when your medical career, family, and schedule already feel completely full? Dr. Shay Moore and Dr. Tony Kim weren’t looking for another responsibility. But when longtime Christian healthcare leaders Arnie and Lois Unfelt prepared to step away after 40 years of faithful ministry in Colorado Springs, God began bringing the right people together at exactly the right time. In this episode of Faith & Health Care, Shay and Tony share how prayer, Christian community, mentorship, and a willingness to say “yes” helped create a new chapter of ministry among healthcare professionals in Colorado Springs.

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And Shay describes the incredible impact of Medical Week at Spring Canyon and the Christian community that helped sustain her through military service, medicine, marriage, and family. The question for all of us is simple: What might God already be preparing you to say YES to?

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Dr. Julie Rosá and Dr. Andy Behnke join Dr. Mike Chupp to explore how medical education can become a powerful form of mission. Drawing on Dr. Behnke’s years of teaching and ministry in Moldova, including diabetes education and efforts to expand access to continuous glucose monitoring, they discuss how sharing specialized knowledge can equip international colleagues and allow God to use skills that may not seem suited to a traditional medical missions trip.

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Reverend Bill Reichart and Dr. John Pierce join Dr. Mike Chupp to reflect on the 18th ICMDA World Congress, where more than 1,200 Christian healthcare professionals and students from over 120 nations gathered on Jeju Island, South Korea. Through stories of the people they met and the faith they witnessed, they offer an inspiring glimpse of the global body of Christ and consider how this wider perspective can encourage each of us to serve faithfully wherever God has placed us.

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In this episode, we’re sharing a special conversation from another CMDA podcast, R2ED Out Loud, on In this episode, we’re sharing a special conversation from another CMDA podcast, R2ED Out Loud, on what faithfulness to Jesus means when it comes to where we live and whom we serve. Dr. Omari Hodge sat down with Dr. Rick Donlon, CEO of the Christian Community Health Fellowship and co-founder of Christ Community Health Services in Memphis. Thirty years ago, Dr. Donlon and three colleagues he first met through a CMDA student chapter opened a health center in one of the most underserved neighborhoods in Memphis. A few years later, he moved his family into one of the communities their health centers served. What he learned there will challenge you, whether you’re a student choosing a specialty or decades into practice. Thirty years ago, Dr. Donlon and three colleagues he first met through a CMDA student chapter opened a health center in one of the most underserved neighborhoods in Memphis. A few years later, he moved his family into one of the communities their health centers served. What he learned there will challenge you, whether you’re a student choosing a specialty or decades into practice.

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In this episode of Faith in Healthcare, Dr. Mike Chupp and CMDA Senior Vice President Dr. Bill Griffin talk with Nathan Miller and Ethan Harris, fourth-year dental students at Virginia Commonwealth University, about building Christian community among their classmates and serving through dental missions in Rwanda and Jamaica. Their story shows what can happen when students step out in faith with the support of experienced professionals, reminding us that ministry does not begin after graduation. It begins with faithfulness wherever God has placed us today.

Ethan Harris and Nathan Miller are fourth year dental students at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia.  VCU previously had an active dental student group, but interest had waned in recent years.  When Ethan and Nate met during their first year they committed themselves to restarting this group, and now there’s a good group of students meeting every Thursday evening.

In addition to their efforts to organize the VCU Dental Student group, earlier this year Nate and Ethan accompanied Dr. Bill Griffin and other dentists on a mission trip to Rwanda, where they developed their clinical skills and also evidenced the power of the Gospel through international dental care.  In order to introduce their classmates to the profound blessing of dental mission trips, Nate and Ethan are currently preparing to lead a group of 15 VCU dental students on a mission trip to Jamaica later this Summer.

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