Doctor, author, speaker and researcher - particularly interested in medical ethics, AI and robotics, and the interface between science and Christian faith.
Can AI be redeemed from destructive and addictive tendencies and harnessed to support the nurturing and formation of Christian disciples for the future?
https://t.co/ENiggjL72D
In this podcast we reconsider what scripture says – and doesn’t say – about the nature of evil and ungodly spiritual forces. How have theologians connected the “lordless” powers the Bible warns us against with modern institutions, technologies and ideas?
https://t.co/wg4UxVuP5H
Can AI be redeemed from destructive and addictive tendencies and harnessed to support the nurturing and formation of Christian disciples for the future?
https://t.co/ENiggjKzd5
Smartphones and mental health: Do we need to radically retool our own church culture to become havens of disconnection and embodied in-person community? Or this just another moral panic at the advent of a new form of technology? https://t.co/FBrWqGa8Ec
In this podcast we reconsider what scripture says – and doesn’t say – about the nature of evil and ungodly spiritual forces. How have theologians connected the “lordless” powers the Bible warns us against with modern institutions, technologies and ideas?
https://t.co/wg4UxVvmVf
Since 2010 mental health problems among young people have exploded. At precisely the same time, smartphones and social media have become deeply embedded in the lives of children and teenagers. Are these linked? https://t.co/FBrWqG9AOE
Smartphones and mental health: Do we need to radically retool our own church culture to become havens of disconnection and embodied in-person community? Or this just another moral panic at the advent of a new form of technology? https://t.co/FBrWqGa8Ec
Since 2010 mental health problems among young people have exploded. At precisely the same time, smartphones and social media have become deeply embedded in the lives of children and teenagers. Are these linked? https://t.co/FBrWqGa8Ec
A core part of the debate around assisted suicide is the argument from autonomy. But should humans always be the 'master of their fates' and 'captains of their souls'? https://t.co/VRbkijTjpc
Before Friday's debate in parliament, I wrote a comprehensive medical and ethical report into Kim Leadbeater's assisted suicide bill, explaining why I thought MPs must reject it https://t.co/ZerCnxk8YL
‘Curing’ obesity with a weekly injection challenges how culture has long viewed it as not a medical condition to be treated but a moral failure of self-control to be repented of. Is it unwise to encourage a pharmacological fix to obesity? https://t.co/kkKahccY1R
The uncertainties, emotional salience, messiness and grisly details of the life-exterminating process are carefully air-brushed so as not to frighten the horses. https://t.co/mfZONMpeth