ICMDA Recordings

Recorded on 9 September 2021 for ICMDA Webinars.

Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Gloria Halverson.

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Recorded on 21 September 2023 for ICMDA Webinars.

Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Simon Calvert.

The abusive practices that activists say should be prevented are already outlawed by existing legislation. These new ‘conversion therapy’ bans are much wider. They are set to criminalise the ordinary work of churches – prayer, pastoral care and preaching – as well as Christian parenting.

Any conversations about LGBT issues that are not deemed “affirming” could result in a police investigation. Standing up for our freedom can seem daunting when we are wrongly accused. Simon Calvert explains how to speak out on this vexed issue.

Simon Calvert has been with The Christian Institute since qualifying as a solicitor in 1996 where he has applied his legal training to parliamentary work and to helping Christians discriminated against because of their faith.

Simon advises on the potential impact of legislation, drafts amendments to Bills and assists UK Parliamentarians with speeches. He has a particular interest in free speech and laws that inhibit public preaching of the gospel.

Simon has played a key role in many successful campaigns and speaks to the media as The Christian Institute’s spokesman.

A native of the North East of England, Simon is married with two children.

Recorded on 14 September 2023 for ICMDA Webinars.

Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Santhosh Mathew.

The ‘world of work’ is changing. Covid-19 and work from home, the post covid economic challenges, the Ukraine war and the uncertainty of the future in a divided world has brought the discussion on the purpose of work to the forefront. AI and related developments will affect the way work is perceived in the near future.

Though healthcare can be protected from major disruptions, some of the aspects are impacting thinking in healthcare too.

This webinar will revisit the theology of work, a framework to look at work as a calling and vocation and reflect on how these understandings can influence our professional life and choices.

Santhosh trained as an Internal Medicine specialist and worked part time as an Internal Medicine Consultant in Duncan Hospital, India, a 225 bedded hospital near the Nepal border.

He is the training coordinator for ICMDA developing an online learning platform and is the ICMDA Regional Secretary for South Asia.

He has pioneered HIV & TB health care programmes in marginalised communities and is involved in hospital leadership roles across North India. He is married to Saira, an Anaesthetist, and they have two children.

Recorded on 7 September 2023 for ICMDA Webinars.

Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Daniel O'Neill.

Exploring perspectives from Latin America, Africa, and Asia, we will try to how we can see that as each culture and tradition interacts, not only is there mutual learning and correction of limited views, but a more comprehensive understanding of the God who heals and a more effective call of his people to actively participate in that healing for the nations.

Daniel O’Neill, MD, MTh is a physician-theologian and managing editor of Christian Journal for Global Health, Assistant Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, and holds a master’s degree in theological studies from Bethel Seminary. He has served on health and development projects among impoverished or displaced populations. He is a co-founder of Health for All Nations and author and co-editor of the book All Creation Groans: Toward a Theology of Disease and Global Health.

Recorded on 31 August 2023 for ICMDA Webinars.

Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Paul Coulter.

Every Christian should be eager to talk about our faith and God will often give us conversations with friends, colleagues or family members. Those conversations, rather than lectures or debates, are the primary context for apologetics – the defence of the faith. Someone asks you a question and you must decide how to respond.

In 1 Peter 3 verses 13 to 16, the apostle Peter anticipates that scenario and provides timeless wisdom we can apply. In this webinar we’ll discover from him the character we must develop, the importance of relationships and the values and skills that shape effective apologetic conversations.

Paul began his working life in medicine before moving into cross-cultural pastoral ministry, studying theology to PhD level, and teaching practical theology. He has written three books and numerous articles on pastoral care, discipleship, leadership, apologetics, and ethics.

Since 2019 he has been Head of Ministry Operations for Living Leadership, training and supporting Christian leaders across the UK and Ireland, and occasionally elsewhere in Europe. He is also Executive Director of Christianity in Society, which connects Christ with contemporary culture online and in Ireland. He lives in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, with wife Gar-Ling (a geriatrician) and two teenaged children.

Recorded on 24 August 2023 for ICMDA Webinars.

Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Prof John Wyatt.

John Wyatt is Emeritus Professor of Neonatal Paediatrics, University College London, a Senior Researcher at the Faraday Institute, Cambridge and President of the UK Christian Medical Fellowship.

He has a clinical background as a paediatrician caring for sick and premature infants and also as a medical scientist researching into the prevention of brain injury in newborn babies.

He has always been interested in ethical dilemmas raised by advances in medical technology and has frequently engaged in public and professional consultations and debates from the perspective of the Christian faith.

His book Matters of Life and Death - Human Dilemmas in the Light of the Christian Faith has been translated into more than 10 languages. His most recent book is The Final Lap. He and his wife Celia are longstanding members of All Souls Church in London.

Recorded on 17 August 2023 for ICMDA Webinars.

Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Nick Land.

Who, or what, decides who we are? Is it our genes, our biology, is it our society, our education, our upbringing, our culture, is it God?

Identity has become a major source of conflict and controversy in Western society. Many of us have been engaged in discussions over sexuality and gender but there is a risk that if we limit ourselves to this we will fail to see the wider changes in the way Western Society understands identity.

This webinar will look at the corrosion caused to ethics and civic society by the rise of expressive individualism as the West’s way of defining self.

Dr Nick Land is a psychiatrist, a retired medical director, an Anglican Reader (Lay Preacher), Lay Chair of the Diocese of York and a previous chair of Christian Medical Fellowship.

Recorded on 10 August 2023 for ICMDA Webinars.

Dr Mark Pickering chairs a webinar with Dan Strange.

In this seminar Dan will outline the major themes from his book Making Faith Magnetic which develops the theological anthropology of the 20th Dutch missionary and scholar J.H. Bavinck.

Our focus will be the ‘religious consciousness’ of all human beings which can be summarised as ‘magnetic points’ – perennial themes and questions which all humans beings answer in their lives. These magnetic points are a fruitful way of thinking about evangelism, discipleship and cultural renewal in whatever cultural context God has placed you.

Dan is the director of Crosslands Forum, a centre for cultural engagement. Formerly he was college director at Oak Hill College, London. He is a visiting professor at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, contributing editor for Themelios, and vice president of The Southgate Fellowship, and a Fellow of The Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics.

His most recent books are Plugged In (The Good Book Company, 2019), and Making Faith Magnetic (The Good Book Company, 2021). Dan is married to Elly, has seven children and a foster child, and is an elder of Hope Community Church in Gateshead in the North East of England.

Recorded on 04 August 2023 for ICMDA Webinars.

Dr Mark Pickering chairs a webinar with Dr André Van Mol.

Gender dysphoria is a diagnosis, but transgenderism is an ideology. Gender transition procedures (GTPs) imperil already at-risk gender dysphoric youth with experimental and unproven hormonal and surgical gender procedures, which medicalize prematurely and permanently. Transition procedures are not proven effective, not proven safe, do not reduce suicides, and are not the standard of care for gender dysphoria.

Comprehensive literature reviews are driving an international pushback against GTPs in favor of intensive psychological evaluation and support for both the patient and their family, and the lawsuits over the harms of GTPs have begun. GTPs are not evidence-based care for gender dysphoric youth.

André Van Mol, MD is a board-certified family physician in full-time practice in California. He co-chairs both the American College of Pediatricians’ Council on Adolescent Sexuality and the Christian Medical & Dental Associations Sexual & Gender Identity Task Force.

Dr. Van Mol writes and speaks for the US CMDA on issues of bioethical and Christian concern. He works with Alliance Defending Freedom in a coalition of professionals advising on policy matters addressing sexual orientation and gender identity. He advises legislators, government agencies, and legal and advocacy organizations internationally on these issues.

Dr. Van Mol serves on the boards of Bethel Church of Redding and Moral Revolution.

Recorded on 27 July 2023 for ICMDA Webinars.

Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Greg Pritchard.

Every Christian leader knows the European church has declined over the last century. Why? Because European Unbelief has exploded in growth and choked off the Gospel church in Europe.

But Europe's problem is now the world's problem. In 1900, Unbelief was less than 1% of the world's population, but today it is 14%. Unbelief is the Gospel's Greatest Competitor. How can we respond? What lessons can we learn from the European church's failure and the beginning of a Gospel resurgence in Europe over the last 20 years?

Greg Pritchard earned his MA from Trinity School of Divinity before continuing on to finish his PhD at Northwestern University. The intersection of theology, history, philosophy and sociology is Greg’s primary focus both in teaching and writing.

He has taught graduate-level courses on apologetics, theology, history, leadership, the New Testament, ethics, and Christian Thought at American, European, and Asian institutions of higher learning.

His book, Willow Creek Seeker Services, has been published in four languages. Currently, Greg serves as the President of the Forum of Christian Leaders and as the Director of the European Leadership Forum. He, his wife, Lori, and their three children reside in Naperville, IL.