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The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity

Within a Judeo-Christian Hippocratic framework, we anticipate, interpret, and engage the pressing bioethical issues of our day.

The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity (CBHD) is a Christian academic research center at LeTourneau University focused on the complex and pressing ethical issues in medicine, science, and technology. The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity is a research center located at Trinity International University that explores the nexus of biomedicine, biotechnology, and our common humanity. As a center of rigorous research, theological and conceptual analysis, charitable critique, and thoughtful engagement, we bring clarity to the complex issues of our day.

03/26/2026

Proposal Deadline: April 1, 2026
https://www.cbhd.org/conference/cfp
CBHD invites healthcare and other professionals, scholars, researchers, educators, and students to submit abstracts of papers that address questions associated with our conference theme—Polytechnic Bioethics—or that engage more broadly with other foundational and emerging bioethical issues raised at the intersections of medicine, science, technology, and our common humanity. For more information, see the Submission Guidelines at https://www.cbhd.org/conference/cfp

03/25/2026

NEW INTERSECTIONS: "The Challenge of Pastoral Leadership Today: What Is Our Technological Age Doing to Us?" by Kelly D. Liebengood, PhD, Dean of the School of Theology and Vocation, LeTourneau University
https://www.cbhd.org/intersections/the-challenge-of-pastoral-leadership-today-what-is-our-technological-age-doing-to-us

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.
https://www.cbhd.org/intersections/the-challenge-of-pastoral-leadership-today-what-is-our-technological-age-doing-to-us

Dr. Kelly Liebengood is Professor of Biblical Studies and Theology at LeTourneau University, where he also serves as Dean of the School of Theology and Vocation. He is passionate about research and writing on such issues as community formation, the intersection between vocation and biblical/theological studies, and Christian faithfulness in a technological world. His upcoming book, _Understanding Christian Vocation in a Technological Age_ (Pickwick), will further delve into issues related to formation and technology. Dr. Liebengood was also the founding pastor of One Hope Presbyterian Church in Longview, Texas, where he continues to serve as elder.

03/19/2026

Call for Proposals -- Deadline April 1
CBHD invites healthcare and other professionals, scholars, researchers, educators, and students to submit abstracts of papers that address questions associated with our conference theme—Polytechnic Bioethics—or that engage more broadly with other foundational and emerging bioethical issues raised at the intersections of medicine, science, technology, and our common humanity. For more information, see the Submission Guidelines at https://www.cbhd.org/conference/cfp

03/18/2026

NOW AVAILABLE: Dignitas vol. 32, no. 3-4 (Fall/Winter 2025)
THE ETHICS OF BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACE DEVICES
https://www.cbhd.org/dignitas-issues/dignitas-vol-32-no-3-4-fall-winter-2025

+ Neuroengineering Hope and Harm: Ethical Dilemmas of Brain-Machine Interfaces
+ Homo Prostheticus: Theological and Ethical Implications of Brain-Computer Interface Technology
+ Brain-Computer Interface Technology’s Impact on Human Personhood, Identity, and Dignity
+ Living in the Biotech Century: 2025 Conference Recap
+ Book Review of The Immortal Mind
+++ MORE +++

03/17/2026

https://www.cbhd.org/conference-2026
Register Now for Polytechnic Bioethics! Confirmed speakers:
+ Gilbert Meilaender, Valparaiso, President's Council on Bioethics
+ John Seago, Texas Right to Life
+ Jesse Kay, Baylor College of Medicine
+ Tara Sander Lee, Science Alliance for Life and Technology
https://www.cbhd.org/conference-2026

03/14/2026

This BIOETHICS WEEKLY:
+ The Theology and Dignity of Death
+ Polytechnic Bioethics
+ Read with CBHD
https://preview.mailerlite.io/preview/217454/emails/181587662068516377

+ Canada now offering SAME-DAY assisted su***de, with one elderly woman who changed her mind killed anyway
+ The Boom in Autism Therapy Is Medicaid’s Fastest-Growing Jackpot
+ Planned Parenthood Wants You to Get Your Botox at Its Clinic
+++ MORE +++

03/11/2026

READ WITH CBHD
https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/cbhd-bioethics-reading-group

Our new Bioethics Reading Group will begin in April 2026, and we plan to read four bioethics books over the course of twelve months. We will read and discuss a book, two months at a time, with a month off between books.

The first book will be Bioethics and the Christian Life by David VanDrunen, and the Reading Group begins on April 1.

Every two weeks, we will hold a 75-minute online discussion, and the first discussion is scheduled for Thursday, April 16, at 3:00 pm Eastern / 2:00 pm Central / 1:00 pm Mountain / Noon Pacific.

CBHD’s associate Jon Holmlund, MD, MA (Bioethics), will lead the discussions in conjunction with CBHD leadership.

Other books we will read:

+ Ewan Goligher, How Should We Then Die? A Christian Response to Physician-Assisted Death
+ Paul Ramsey, Fabricated Man: The Ethics of Genetic Control
+ One Book to Be Determined

There will be a small charge to participate: $50 payable to CBHD to participate in the discussion of each book (or $150 to participate in the discussions of all four books), and you will need to purchase a copy of each book.

We hope you will join this effort!
https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/cbhd-bioethics-reading-group

03/10/2026

New INTERSECTIONS: "The Theology and Dignity of Death: Karl Rahner’s Lessons for Today" by Edward R. Grant, JD, MA
https://www.cbhd.org/intersections/the-theology-and-dignity-of-death-karl-rahners-lessons-for-today
Death poses many paradoxes. Is it a purely natural event, or in some sense unnatural? An end, or also a beginning? What is the state of our soul after our passing? How should we understand what death is? And why is it that we die the death we die?

03/07/2026

In the BIOETHICS WEEKLY:
+ Call for Proposals – 2026 Conference: Polytechnic Bioethics
https://preview.mailerlite.io/preview/217454/emails/181039858222893017

+ More organs are being donated after the heart stops, not brain death. Policies are changing too
+ Lab-Grown Brains Growing More Powerful
+ Gemini Said They Could Only Be Together if He Killed Himself. Soon, He Was Dead.
+ ChatGPT Health ‘under-triaged’ half of medical emergencies in a new study
+++ MORE +++

03/04/2026

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: DEADLINE APRIL 1
https://www.cbhd.org/conference/cfp
CBHD invites healthcare and other professionals, scholars, researchers, educators, and students to submit abstracts of papers that address questions associated with our conference theme—Polytechnic Bioethics—or that engage more broadly with other foundational and emerging bioethical issues raised at the intersections of medicine, science, technology, and our common humanity.

03/03/2026

New Month, NEW BIOETHICS MONTHLY:
https://preview.mailerlite.io/preview/217454/emails/180409975726671009
+ On Shepherding Embodied Souls
+ New Intersections Series – Shared Convictions: CBHD and LeTourneau on Mission
+ Five Questions: Virtue Formation in Applied Christian Education
+ 2026 Conference
+ 20 Years of The Bioethics Podcast: The One Who Smiles A Lot
+ News Highlights
+++ MORE +++

03/02/2026

Catch Up on The BIOETHICS WEEKLY
+ Registration Now Open – 2026 Conference: Polytechnic Bioethics
+ New Intersections Series – Shared Convictions: CBHD and LeTourneau on Mission
+ Five Questions: Virtue Formation in Applied Christian Education
https://preview.mailerlite.io/preview/217454/emails/180409960691140056

+ Grail’s Cancer Detection Test Fails in Major Study
+ Hospitals Fighting Measles Confront a Challenge: Few Doctors Have Seen It Before
+ The FDA creates a quicker path for gene therapies
+++ MORE +++

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