Matters of Life and Death

192 Episodes

1. Archie Battersbee 2: Doubts over the brain scans, the end of ‘doctor knows best’, sucked into the culture wars and protective power of attorney

   Published: 31/08/2022
2. Archie Battersbee 1: The invention of ‘brain death’, a breakdown in trust, the child’s best interests, and how to turn off life support

   Published: 24/08/2022
3. Genetics 2: Whole genome sequencing, Gattaca, de-identification versus anonymity, and Big Data Towers of Babel

   Published: 17/08/2022
4. Genetics 1: Rare diseases, libraries of recipe books, BRCA1, and precision medicine

   Published: 10/08/2022
5. Suffering 2: Rediscovering lament, reciting psalms in bomb shelters, the Gethsemane prayer, and the realism of Christian hope

   Published: 3/08/2022
6. Suffering 1: ’Adamah’, mystery and presence, the ever-smiling Buddha, and the lamb slain from the creation of the world

   Published: 27/07/2022
7. Space 2: Astrobiology, 16 billion billion Earth-like planets, LUCA and the non-competitive Imago Dei

   Published: 20/07/2022
8. Space 1: The James Webb telescope, extra-terrestrial life, hobbits of the universe and the doctrine of creation

   Published: 13/07/2022
9. Simulation 2: Zoom’s face-smoothing, chatbot therapists, Trinitarianism, and evil as counterfeit

   Published: 6/07/2022
10. Simulation 1: Deep fakes, David Beckham speaking Mandarin, Jean Baudrillard’s four phases, and image as sacrament

    Published: 29/06/2022
11. Prenatal screening 2: The prohibition on soothsaying, transcending genetic determinism, a client-technician relationship and Heidi Crowter’s joyful self-advocacy

    Published: 22/06/2022
12. Prenatal screening 1: Peering into the unknown, less than 1/150, blood tests over the internet, and disability doublethink

    Published: 15/06/2022
13. Old people 2: Aging congregations, transcendence at the Arsenal, understanding life backwards, and honouring prayer warriors

    Published: 8/06/2022
14. Old people 1: The demographic transition, Reverend Thomas Malthus, Hasidic Jewish outliers, and the grey vote

    Published: 1/06/2022
15. Robot rights 2: Rejecting self-definition, the citadel of human uniqueness, rehashing ‘God of the gaps’, and evangelising at androids

    Published: 25/05/2022
16. Robot rights 1: Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws, fauxbots, whimpering miniature dinosaurs, and inherent or conferred personhood

    Published: 18/05/2022
17. Pregnancy crisis 2: Paternalistic gynaecologists, holding truth with grace, ambiguity in the ultrasound clinic, and refusing the culture war

    Published: 11/05/2022
18. Pregnancy crisis 1: A constructive Christian response, heads versus hearts, feeling like a ‘bad feminist’, and the three options

    Published: 4/05/2022
19. John Stott 2: Christians in the public square, an untried ideal, talking and living like Jesus, and the challenge of evangelical hagiography

    Published: 27/04/2022
20. John Stott 1: Double listening, a conservative radical, redefining ‘the ministry’ and salt as preservative

    Published: 20/04/2022