Alongside my main interests in medical ethics, advancing technology and issues of science and faith, I also teach and write about the historic Christian faith. In particular, I try to build a conceptual bridge between the technological and ethical issues of the modern world and the world of the orthodox Christian faith.
Along with my son, the journalist Tim Wyatt, I also run a podcast called Matters of Life and Death, which seeks to help Christians navigate and respond to issues in healthcare, ethics, science, technology and more. Find out more and listen to the latest episodes here.
You can find talks, sermons and other resources focused on the Christian faith that I have uploaded below:
Ethics
Talk: Responding to evil in God’s world
Christians must talk about the brokenness and pain everywhere around us with tears in our eyes
Talk: The big picture – understanding the great narratives of our time
What is the source of the beauty, deep order and awesome complexity of the cosmos?
Article: Caring in the light of eternity
Loving my mother through her dementia and remembering this was not the end of her story
Talk: Is there a morally right way to live?
Unpacking our deep-seated sense of right and wrong
Talk: If God loves us, why is there suffering?
There is something deeply mysterious and strange and inexplicable about human suffering
Talk: Bringing (im)mortality to light
Overcoming society’s final taboo
Teaching
Lectures: The unchanging person
It is troubling how different forces of consumerism, relativism and technology are mingling together in healthcare
Talk: The free and uncoerced costly love of God
God’s love is both sovereign and yet does not obliterate our choice to respond to it
Talk and discussion: Quick to listen – lessons from John Stott on grace under fire
‘Uncle John’ was a brilliant witness of how to live graciously and incarnationally
Talk: Living Biblically integrated lives
Everything in society driving us towards compartmentalisation, otherwise known as spiritual schizophrenia, where we flick our a Christian mode on and off
The church
Interview and talk: The John Stott Centenary – Equipping the people of God for ministry
What can we learn from this hero of the faith about how lay Christians can be released into gospel service?
Article: Christianity in a time of plague
What can we learn from how the early church lived out their faith during their own pandemics?
Webinar: Christianity and plagues – lessons from history
Encouragement and inspiration from how the early church dealt with their own pandemics
Christian living
Essay: Unhealthy perfectionism – signs and symptoms
Some perfectionism is helpful, but it can also become destructive without careful attention
Essay: How to be a recovering perfectionist
Rather than creating new burdens in trying to shed perfectionism, let’s embrace healthier ways of thinking
Interview: The life and legacy of John Stott
Remembering my friend and mentor, and how his wisdom has shaped my life
Talk: Rhythms of fruitfulness
How can we live out the pattern of work and then rest built into God’s created order?
Article: How to have hope in the face of coronavirus
The coronavirus pandemic has led to an exponential rise in mental health conditions triggered by all-pervading death anxiety
Interview: Life in the shadow of death – Finding hope in a pandemic
John Lennox and I explore the cost of living through coronavirus
Article: Reality and Putin’s lies
Does the simple truth ultimately prevail against the most sophisticated and ingenious of lies?
Healthcare
Webinar: Christian Ethics, Compassion & Covid-19
Those labouring through the pandemic in healthcare must recover Jesus’s easy yoke and light burden
Talk: Following Christ in medicine today
It’s 48 years since I started as a medical student, and working in healthcare has never been so challenging
Article: The fellowship of suffering
Working as Christians in the NHS while facing scrutiny and hostility
Article: The doctor’s worldview
Pluralistic modern societies are a feature of modern healthcare systems and so we must grapple with the physician’s hidden presuppositions
Talks: Ambition, resilience and presence as a junior doctor
How can junior doctors serve Christ inside today’s NHS?
Article: The machine will see you now
We don’t know how fast automation will enter healthcare, but it’s eventual arrival seems inevitable
Clinical Seminars with Luke the Physician: Introduction
Bible studies for health professionals from Luke’s gospel
BBC Radio Talk: A neonatologist’s view of Christmas
There is something of the preciousness and poignancy of a fragile new life which the desperate love of a parent cannot protect from death
Talk: Neonatology at the Carol Service
We need to recover our sense of wonder and shock that the supreme God of power and glory became a fragile, vulnerable baby
Webinar: The doctor’s conscience
What is our conscience, is it reliable, and can we bring it onto the wards?
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