ICMDA Recordings

Recorded on 21 May 2026 for ICMDA Webinars. Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Daniel O'Neill God’s word is a meta-narrative, and threaded throughout the ancient text is a healing meta-narrative. Understanding the healing purposes of God’s redemptive story allows us to weave our individual micro-narratives into this greater story.   This third of a three-part series will suggest a practic...

Recorded on 14 May 2026 for ICMDA Webinars. Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Victor Fredlund This webinar outlines the urgent need to revitalise the mission of hospitals, focusing on their unique role in delivering holistic healthcare, spiritual support and community development. It addresses the current challenges faced, including funding shortages, staff burnout and outdated infrastructur...

Recorded on 7 May 2026 for ICMDA Webinars. Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Andy Bannister During the early twenty-first century, New Atheism was busy producing best-selling books and plastering adverts on the sides of buses. Its loud scepticism is not as popular these days, but many of its arguments live on. Yet, what if some of its common claims like "science has buried God" and...

Recorded on 30 April 2026 for ICMDA Webinars. Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Tim Dieppe Tim is passionate about reading and encouraging Christians to see the importance of reading. For several years now, Tim has aimed to read over 100 books per year. He has achieved this six times and is currently on target to get there again this year! Tim also runs an online book club with some friends to...

Recorded on 23 April 2026 for ICMDA Webinars. Philippa Taylor chairs a webinar with Paul Coleman We see a rise of censorship across the world. Entire social media platforms are being threatened with bans in Western democracies, people face criminal charges for quoting the bible, stating biological facts, or expressing an opinion on matters of public interest. Paul Coleman, executive director of AD...

Recorded on 20 April 2026 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Jay Smith is interviewed by Peter Saunders, CEO of ICMDA, about new developments in Islamic apologetics and polemics. They unpack the growing questions surrounding the historical, textual, and ideological foundations of Islam. From emerging research on the Qur’an—including intriguing new findings coming out of Russia—to ongoing debates about Mecca,...

Recorded on 16 April 2026 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Sharon Dirckx Modern research is uncovering more and more detail of what our brain is and how it works. We are living, thinking creatures who carry around with us an amazing organic supercomputer in our heads. But what is the relationship between our brains and our minds-and ultimately our sense of identity as...

Recorded on 9 April 2026 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with David Oliver ‘When Gill and I faced our own loss, we found that grief didn't follow any neat pattern. It wasn't something to get over! It came in unstoppable, irrepressible, unwelcome, uninvited waves. However, gradually we began to experience that even in the darkest of places God's light could be fou...

Recorded on 2 April 2026 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Jenny Taylor Jenny Taylor presents a thought-provoking webinar exploring the crisis and calling of modern journalism. Drawing on her book Saving Journalism, she asks: why has the press drifted from watchdog to confusion, and what will restore trust? As digital media and AI accelerate misinformation, audiences a...

Recorded on 26 March 2026 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Echo VanderWal Faith in Action: Building a Community-Based HIV Care System in Africa In Eswatini, one of the countries most affected by HIV,  The Luke Commission  has developed a community-based model that integrates HIV services within comprehensive primary care. Rooted in Christian mission and local leadership,...

Recorded on 19 March 2026 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Larry Worthen CMDA Canada’s Executive Director, Larry Worthen, will provide timely information on euthanasia and assisted suicide (euphemistically called MAiD) in Canada. This will include discussion of regulatory policies, the impact on vulnerable Canadians, and how CMDA Canada is helping Canadian Christians to...

Recorded on 1 March 2026 In this interview, Pablo Martinez is interviewed by Peter Saunders, CEO of ICMDA, about his recent book Take Care of Yourself: Survive and Thrive in Christian Ministry and how Christian leaders can flourish in their work. To love God and serve others well, we often need to be still, rest and be renewed. Listeners will learn what it means to care for their own ‘vineyard’—th...

Recorded on 12 March 2026 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Daniel O'Neill God’s word is a meta-narrative, and threaded throughout the ancient text is a healing meta-narrative. The bible reveals a unique way to engage in purposeful, health-promoting, missional living wherever we are called to serve. This second of a three-part series will present a comprehensive ov...

Recorded on 5 March 2026 for ICMDA Webinars. Howard Lyons and Dr Mark Pickering chair a webinar with Dr Jim Ritchie Moral injury is inevitable when serving in medicine, especially cross-cultural medicine. Medics often feel powerful emotional burden from moral injury, a leading cause of early departure from practice. But we have learned proven methods of preventing and dealing with moral injury. Th...

Recorded on 26 February 2026 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Paul Coulter Everything is ethical. Thoughtful decisions inevitably involve questions about right and wrong, good and bad. In the complexities of modern healthcare, ethics is increasingly important as decisions have become increasingly complex while foundations for ethics are often eroded. Christian healthc...

Recorded on 19 February 2026 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Trevor Stammers Autonomy has arguably become the ruling ethical principle in contemporary bioethics and clinical decision-making, certainly in Western medicine. In an age of ‘patient-centred care’, everyone is aware of the importance of patient autonomy. But what does autonomy mean conceptually and practica...

Recorded on 1 7 February 2026 In this interview, Peter Saunders, CEO of ICMDA, speaks with Prof John Lennox about his recent book God, AI and the End of History: Understanding the Book of Revelation in an Age of Intelligent Machines. How do recent developments in technology—specifically the rise of artificial intelligence—parallel the biblical account of Revelation? How should Christians respond t...

Recorded on 12 February 2026 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Santhosh Mathew Neuroscience has progressed rapidly, revealing the brain’s capacity for change throughout life. Advances in technology and genetics have enriched our insight, bridging neurology and psychiatry, and emphasising the uniqueness of thought and behaviour. As neuroscience shapes medicine, educatio...

Recorded on 5 February 2026 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Prof Mark Pietroni Leadership in a cross cultural setting:  An opportunity to understand some key concepts of leadership theory, critically reflect on your own leadership, and place this in a Biblical and cross-cultural setting. Mark trained in infectious diseases in London in the 1990s. He left the UK in 1997...

Recorded on 29 January 2026 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Santhosh Mathew chairs a webinar with Dr Hannah John Our mission is to go into all the world and make disciples. What if the world comes to you? With cross-cultural migration, people from around the world could be at your doorstep. This is particularly true in high-income countries where people move for better opportunities and quality of life. On...

Recorded on 22 January 2026 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Simon Ramsbotham This webinar is intended for doctors, dentist and nurses who are contemplating retirement or have just retired. It urges us all to labour for Christ to the end and suggests one special way this can be done through continuing in our profession with the intention of giving to the building of G...

Recorded on 15 January 2026 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr David Randall chairs a webinar with Dr Scott Armistead Euro-American bioethics which emerged from a blend of both the Hippocratic tradition and Judeo-Christian ethics, has veered significantly from its roots.  Principlism - autonomy, justice, beneficence, nonmaleficence - arising out of the US in the 1960s, has spread around the world, but its app...

Recorded on 7 January 2026 In this interview, Peter Saunders, CEO of ICMDA, speaks with Dr. William Lane Craig about his calling as a Christian philosopher and theologian. Dr. Craig shares lessons learned from his experiences and offers advice for Christian academics about how to be faithful in their callings. This webinar is run in partnership with the  ⁠Forum of Christian Leaders⁠  (FOCL). ⁠To l...

Recorded on 8 January 2026 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Brad MacKinnon Dying with Christ – Living with Hope  is a faith-based program designed to equip churches and communities to respond thoughtfully to end-of-life issues, including the growing expansion of euthanasia (MAiD) in Canada. The course combines medical, ethical, theological, and pastoral perspectives, hel...

Recorded on 16 December 2025 In this interview, Peter Saunders, CEO of ICMDA, speaks with Peter J. Williams about his recent book  Can We Trust the Gospels? We will see how well the evidence for Jesus compares with the writings we have about famous people in history. We will see that the writers of the four Gospels were deeply familiar with the land and culture they wrote about, and we will see th...