Welcome to the podcast Think Biblically, conversations on faith and culture.

I'm your host Scott Ray, Dean of Faculty and Professor of Christian Ethics at Talbot School of Theology at

Biola University.

And I'm your co-host Sean McDowell, Professor of Apologetics at Talbot School

Theology Biola University.

We're here today with Dr. Page Cunningham, who is the executive director of the Center for

Bioethics and Human Dignity at Trinity International University outside Chicago.

The center, I say, has been around for, in fact, they celebrated their 25th anniversary

this last summer, and they have been around for a long time and are still the pre-eminent Christian

think tank and resource center for the discussion on bioethics and contemporary

culture. So Paige welcome to the podcast.

Really appreciate you being able to be with us.

Well, it's my pleasure to join you today.

Our listeners might not be super familiar with the term bioethics. So tell us a little bit, what does that term refer to and sort of what's the field of bioethics about?

You know, that's the word that gets to either a blank spare or people running away.

And it's actually pretty hard to define, but I find the easiest way for people to get their arms around it is to think

about the kinds of decisions we make with respect to medical technologies because that's where

most people encounter bioethics and that's where you have a decision about say do we pull the plug

Do we use in-vutro fertilization? What about this stem cell therapy so questions where we have kind of high-tech

intersecting with health concerns but that's not all of it that's just most

familiar part okay so this sounds, I think,

probably to many of our listeners,

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