Matters of Life and Death
Ein Podcast von Premier Unbelievable? - Mittwochs
192 Folgen
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Archie Battersbee 2: Doubts over the brain scans, the end of ‘doctor knows best’, sucked into the culture wars and protective power of attorney
Vom: 31.8.2022 -
Archie Battersbee 1: The invention of ‘brain death’, a breakdown in trust, the child’s best interests, and how to turn off life support
Vom: 24.8.2022 -
Genetics 2: Whole genome sequencing, Gattaca, de-identification versus anonymity, and Big Data Towers of Babel
Vom: 17.8.2022 -
Genetics 1: Rare diseases, libraries of recipe books, BRCA1, and precision medicine
Vom: 10.8.2022 -
Suffering 2: Rediscovering lament, reciting psalms in bomb shelters, the Gethsemane prayer, and the realism of Christian hope
Vom: 3.8.2022 -
Suffering 1: ’Adamah’, mystery and presence, the ever-smiling Buddha, and the lamb slain from the creation of the world
Vom: 27.7.2022 -
Space 2: Astrobiology, 16 billion billion Earth-like planets, LUCA and the non-competitive Imago Dei
Vom: 20.7.2022 -
Space 1: The James Webb telescope, extra-terrestrial life, hobbits of the universe and the doctrine of creation
Vom: 13.7.2022 -
Simulation 2: Zoom’s face-smoothing, chatbot therapists, Trinitarianism, and evil as counterfeit
Vom: 6.7.2022 -
Simulation 1: Deep fakes, David Beckham speaking Mandarin, Jean Baudrillard’s four phases, and image as sacrament
Vom: 29.6.2022 -
Prenatal screening 2: The prohibition on soothsaying, transcending genetic determinism, a client-technician relationship and Heidi Crowter’s joyful self-advocacy
Vom: 22.6.2022 -
Prenatal screening 1: Peering into the unknown, less than 1/150, blood tests over the internet, and disability doublethink
Vom: 15.6.2022 -
Old people 2: Aging congregations, transcendence at the Arsenal, understanding life backwards, and honouring prayer warriors
Vom: 8.6.2022 -
Old people 1: The demographic transition, Reverend Thomas Malthus, Hasidic Jewish outliers, and the grey vote
Vom: 1.6.2022 -
Robot rights 2: Rejecting self-definition, the citadel of human uniqueness, rehashing ‘God of the gaps’, and evangelising at androids
Vom: 25.5.2022 -
Robot rights 1: Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws, fauxbots, whimpering miniature dinosaurs, and inherent or conferred personhood
Vom: 18.5.2022 -
Pregnancy crisis 2: Paternalistic gynaecologists, holding truth with grace, ambiguity in the ultrasound clinic, and refusing the culture war
Vom: 11.5.2022 -
Pregnancy crisis 1: A constructive Christian response, heads versus hearts, feeling like a ‘bad feminist’, and the three options
Vom: 4.5.2022 -
John Stott 2: Christians in the public square, an untried ideal, talking and living like Jesus, and the challenge of evangelical hagiography
Vom: 27.4.2022 -
John Stott 1: Double listening, a conservative radical, redefining ‘the ministry’ and salt as preservative
Vom: 20.4.2022
In each episode of Matters of Life and Death, brought to you by Premier Unbelievable, John Wyatt and his son Tim discuss issues in healthcare, ethics, technology, science, faith and more. John is a doctor, professor of ethics, and writer and speaker on these topics, while Tim is a religion and social affairs journalist. We talk about how Christians can better engage with a particular question of life, death or something else in between. For more resources to help you explore faith and the big questions, visit: http://www.premierunbelievable.com If you want to go deeper into some of the topics we discuss, find more resources to read, listen to and watch at John’s website: http://www.johnwyatt.com
