CONCORDIA BIOETHICS INSTITUTE (CBI)

Decision Making Compatible with the Christian Faith

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The Concordia Bioethics Institute offers a unique approach to bioethics that equips personal and professional decision making through spiritual guidance, competent teaching, insightful research, and needed resources.

The purpose of the Concordia Bioethics Institute is to serve Jesus Christ and humanity by bringing the power of the Gospel and guidance from God's Law to help people make decisions compatible with the Christian faith on issues in biology and health care. Our vision is to address ethical issues in health care and the life sciences from a distinctively Lutheran perspective and to facilitate Concordia University Wisconsin in accomplishing its Purpose Statement of "exerting a Christian influence on the community, nation, and world" by becoming an important Protestant bioethics teaching, service, and research center.

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Wednesday, September 19th

Aurora Research Ethics Day: Everyday Research Ethics

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Defending the Denseless at the Lutherans for Life Annual Conference in Omaha, Nebraska

Convention sets LCMS position on stem-cell research

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ARCHIVED VIDEO OF THE 2005 CBI, LCMS WORLD RELIEF AND HUMAN CARE, AND LUTHERANS FOR LIFE JOINT BIOETHICS CONFERENCE!

This conference was videorecorded and is offered free as steaming video. Check out the "News and Events" page of this website to access on-demand streaming video of the Joint Conference.

On November 11, 2005, the LCMS Sanctity of Life Committee, Lutherans for Life, and the Concordia Bioethics Institute co-sponsored a major bioethics conference at the Sheraton Westport Lakeside Chalet, St. Louis, Missouri. This event is the first Lutheran Church"Missouri Synod national bioethics conference which will take place the day before the annual Lutherans for Life convention. The title of the conference is: "The Image of God: Its Meaning and Implications." Topics will include: "Arguing About Embryos," "Creation Up Close," "The Simplicity and Power of the Biblical Image of God," "Biotechnology 101: A Primer," "The Sanctity of Life in the Biotech Century," "Genetic Manipulations of Human Beings," "The Two Kingdoms in Bioethics and Pastoral Care," "Care at Life"s End," "The Science and Lexicon of the End of Life," "Implications of Hormonal Birth Control in Family Life and Pastoral Care," and "Caring for Those Who Suffer: The Gift of the Cross in Bioethics." Speakers will include: Gilbert Meilaender (member of President Bush"s Council on Bioethics), Nigel Cameron (Chairman, Executive Committee; Center for Bioethics and Culture), David Mention (Prof. Emeritus Washington University in St. Louis), Nathan Jastram (Theology Department Chair, CUW), James Lamb (Director, LFL), David Prentice (Senior Fellow for Life Sciences at the Family Research Council, Washington D.C.), Ed Veith (formerly of CUW, Director of the Cranach Institute, and Culture Editor of World magazine), Robert Weise (Professor of Pastoral Ministry and Life Sciences, Concordia Seminary, St. Louis), Beverly Yahnke (of Christian Counseling Services in Milwaukee), and Kevin Voss (Director, Concordia Bioethics Institute). As an added bonus, attendees will be able to hear the evening keynote address and opening of the Lutherans for Life Convention by Wesley Smith (attorney, renowned author and lecturer, and Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute).

Our thanks go to the Concordia University Wisconsin Instructional Technology Department for recording the sessions and for providing a live webcast.

The Concordia Bioethics Institute is one of the Concordia Servant Institutes (CSI) of Concordia University Wisconsin. The vision of CSI is to exert a Lutheran Christian influence on our communities. CSI provides research and education outreach arms seeking to engage the culture with historical, expert, enterprising and creative programming that fills unmet needs among students and lay leaders in the church and world. CSI represents a suite of institutes and centers offering collaboration and service to Christ designed to strengthen CUW"s relationship with church-related constituents. Visit the CSI web site at http://institutes.cuw.edu.

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