The Bioethics Podcast

In this episode of the podcast, Dr. Jonathan Lett presents for us his recent article addressing the phenomenon of boredom and the particular contours it bears in our present, digital age.

Show Notes

Bored in a Digital Age https://www.cbhd.org/intersections/bored-in-a-digital-age

Jonathan Lett, PhD https://www.letu.edu/academics/theology-and-vocation/fac-bio-lett.html

Faith, Science, and Technology Initiative at LeTourneau University https://www.letu.edu/academics/faith-science-technology-initiative/

Intersections Forum https://www.cbhd.org/intersections

Shared Convictions: CBHD and LeTourneau on Mission https://www.cbhd.org/resource-type/shared-convictions-cbhd-and-letourneau-on-mission

Show Notes:

• The Challenge of Pastoral Leadership Today: What Is Our Technological Age Doing to Us?
• Kelly Liebengood, Ph.D.
• Intersections Forum
• Shared Convictions: CBHD and LeTourneau on Mission
• 2026 Annual Conference, Polytechnic Bioethics, June 25-27

This episode of the podcast celebrates the 20th anniversary of The Bioethics Podcast. The inaugural episode was uploaded on February 3, 2006, and we thought it might be interesting to listen again to that first episode as we mark the 20th anniversary of this project.

Show Notes

Ross Douthat’s interview with Noor Siddiqui: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/opinion/genetics-children-noor-siddiqui.html

This poem, written by and read for us by CBHD Research Scholar Anna Vollema, intersperses poetic reflection with quotations from Scripture and excerpts from “O Come, O Come Emmanuel.”

Read the poem at https://www.cbhd.org/intersections/emmanuel-the-word-made-flesh

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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 Eppinette for a discussion of the Netflix documentary film Don’t Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever. 

The film is a profile of Bryan Johnson, a tech entrepreneur who is devoting his fortune to extending his life through careful and detailed monitoring of various biomarkers, as well as experimental treatments and other methods. 

Show Notes

Trailer: https://youtu.be/kf9e1o7rUeo?si=WlDYOepN3nId5BS7 

Watch on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81757532 

Katie Drummond, "Bryan Johnson Is Going to Die," Wired https://www.wired.com/story/big-interview-bryan-johnson/ 

Todd T.W. Daly, Chasing Methuselah: Theology, the Body, and Slowing Human Aging, Cascade Books, 2021, https://a.co/d/dhZLvuv 

In Chasing Methuselah, Todd Daly examines the modern biomedical anti-aging project from a Christian perspective, drawing on the ancient wisdom of the Desert Fathers, who believed that the incarnation opened a way for human life to regain the longevity of Adam and the biblical patriarchs through prayer and fasting. Daly balances these insights with the christological anthropology of Karl Barth, discussing the implications for human finitude, fear of death, and the use of anti-aging technology, weaving a path between outright condemnation and uncritical enthusiasm.

Denyse O'Leary, "A Science-Based Case for the Immortality of the Human Soul," CBHD https://www.cbhd.org/intersections/a-science-based-case-for-the-immortality-of-the-human-soul 

Kent Dunnington, Addiction and Virtue: Beyond the Models of Disease and Choice, IVP Academic, 2011, https://a.co/d/fc8bRLQ 

Neither of the two dominant models (disease or choice) adequately accounts for the experience of those who are addicted or of those who are seeking to help them. In this interdisciplinary work, Kent Dunnington brings the neglected resources of philosophical and theological analysis to bear on the problem of addiction. Drawing on the insights of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, he formulates an alternative to the usual reductionistic models.

When we desire to walk well with those who suffer, it is a beautiful reflection of God’s heart in his children. When we are invited into the sacred spaces of loss, we can feel paralyzed in knowing how to do it.

Read the piece on our Intersections Forum

Kirsten’s website, Faithful Paradox

This episode of the podcast features Executive Director Matthew Eppinette's update from this year’s conference on CBHD’s future in light of the changes coming at our host institution, Trinity.

Show Notes:

Give Now: https://www.tiu.edu/giving/bioethics/

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CBHD Case for Giving

Lucidity Pictures and Cradled in Glass: https://luciditypictures.com/projects/cradled-in-glass/

International Institute or Restorative Reproductive Medicine: https://iirrm.org/

Register for Living in the Biotech Century: The First 25 Years https://www.cbhd.org/conference

Show Notes

• "AI and All Its Splendors," Christianity Today