ICMDA Recordings

Recorded on 20 February 2025 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Matthew Eppinette Bioethics has brought a slate of topics over the past years. Today, we face a set of complex and pressing issues, and the dilemmas of tomorrow are, at most, just over the horizon. This talk will include a few comments about the bioethics of yesterday before turning to the issues of today a...

Recorded on 13 February 2025 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Steven Willing Transgenderism describes an individual who identifies with a gender that does not correspond to their sex. Trans-affirming advocates may say that social and medical transitioning merely brings the body into line with the mind, but what if it goes the other way? What if the cart is pulling the...

Recorded on 6 February 2025 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Ashleigh Chapman Human trafficking is a growing public health crisis that is now impacting over 1M individuals in the United States and over 50M souls worldwide. No community is immune. And yet, less than 1% of victims are identified. Healthcare professionals have perhaps the most critical role to play. Why? Be...

Recorded on 30 January 2025 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Daniel O'Neill Humans are corporeal creatures made in God’s image, and as such live corporate lives in community. Tertulian wrote, “the flesh is the very condition on which salvation hinges.” Based on the Apostle Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians (15:1-3; 20-58), we will explore the relevance of this le...

Recorded on 23 January 2025 for ICMDA Webinars. Howard Lyons chairs a webinar with Dr Santhosh Mathew For more on the Diploma in Healthcare Management visit https://icmda.net/resources/i-pgdhcm/ The lack of trained healthcare managers and leaders who can efficiently manage healthcare institutions in resource limited settings is well known. The recent pandemic highlighted the critical need for stro...

Recorded on 16 January 2025 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr John Patrick Ethics courses only routinely appeared in the medical curriculum in the 80s An anecdote: “I only teach ethics I don’t practice them.” Aristotle begins his ethics; “Every rational activity aims at some end or good.” Paul points out that “ The good that I would I do not…” The University presumes (...

Recorded on 9 January 2025 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Jean-Paul Dansou This Webinar is about how to build a strong family. We believe that family is the first cell of every society - weak families make weak nations. Building strong families is a powerful means to prepare a better new generation. Based on US research we plan to share six characteristics of strong...

Recorded on 19 December 2024 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Vinod Shah In addressing problems, we often take a forward approach—assessing strengths and weaknesses (e.g., SWOT) before moving to strategic planning. In this session, however, I am adopting a different method: working backward from the desired impact. I have identified 10 interconnected health-related im...

Recorded on 12 December 2024 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Steven Willing As if reading from the same script, both the New York Times and The Wall Street Journal ran feature-length articles recently on the plummeting birth rates of the advanced Euro-American and East Asian nations. This phenomenon has been known for some time and continues to grow. Why is it a prob...

Recorded on 5 December 2024 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Fi McLachlan & Prof Sam Leinster Why and how should healthcare professionals engage in advocacy on matters of health? How can we approach this and how do we both use, but not abuse, our positions in respect of those in need in the communities we serve? What might some of the barriers be to engaging in advoc...

Recorded on 28 November 2024 for ICMDA Webinars. Howard Lyons chairs a webinar with Dr Alex Bolek ICMDA has eight strategic priorities. Two of these priorities are: ‘Establishing new movements’ and ‘Strengthening existing movements.’ This is comparable to the small church fellowships established in different regions mentioned in the Book of Acts: “Then the church(es) throughout Judea, Galilee and...

Recorded on 21 November 2024 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Chris Howles The 21st century world is different. But are our methods and means of world mission remaining static? Since the turn of the century we've seen unprecedented increases in global migration, huge growth in the size and reach of the majority world church (and corresponding decline in the Western churc...

Recorded on 7 November 2024 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr David Randall chairs a webinar with Lindsay Brown Why is student ministry so important/strategic in fulfilling God’s purposes? How have medics played a significant role in student ministry globally? What can we learn from Scripture and past church history about how to engage with students? What should be our goals/key emphases in helping to presen...

Recorded on 31 October 2024 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Benjamin Bronnert Walker An historical approach to faith-based healthcare can offer insights into how government, medical groups, public health authorities, international organisations, and spiritual communities interact over the long term. Historical analysis provides a vital (but often under-utilised) expl...

Recorded on 24 October 2024 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Peter Pilon Starting with the printing of customised New Testaments for evangelism which were printed in 10 languages the City Bibles ministry grew to a ministry printing NT’s and Bibles in almost 150 languages distributed all over the world. In 2017 we developed the interactive Gospel of John that formed a...

Recorded on 17 October 2024 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Alex Bolek Africa has a special place in the Bible. For instance, Patriarchs like Abraham visited Africa and Simon of Cyrene who carried Jesus’ cross were African. The first European missionaries arrived in the continent as early as 1490. Africa is emerging as the “Centre of gravity of Christianity”. Researc...

Recorded on 10 October 2024 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Alex Bolek chairs a webinar with Dr Daniel O'Neill In the biblical story line, there is a vivid contrast between good news and bad news, between life and death, between good and evil. From the very beginning humanity is presented with the options of blessings and curses, of choosing life or death. Yet most of us live on the spectrum. In the contex...

Recorded on 3 October 2024 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Santhosh Mathew chairs a webinar with Rick Allen This webinar will focus on the impact that healthcare missionaries are having throughout the world. Rick will be sharing several of the stories outlining how God has been working in and through healthcare professionals as a means of sharing the love of Jesus. Listen in to hear of a powerful movement...

Recorded on 26 September 2024 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr David Randall chairs a webinar with Dr Trevor Stammers Death is both a biological necessity and a spiritual norm. "It is destined for people to die once" (Hebrews 9v7 DLNT). Determining death was once relatively easy - the cessation of breathing and heartbeat for over ten minutes were usually considered reliable indicators. But with th...

Recorded on 19 September 2024 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Andy Bannister Today’s public square is largely a digital one, so it’s vital that Christians, ministries, and churches think creatively and clearly about how to engage the world of media, social media, and other digital spaces. Andy Bannister, Director of Solas, a UK-based evangelism ministry that speciali...

Recorded on 12 September 2024 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Beth Peltola The Bible addresses religions like Islam on almost every page… In fact, the Christian does not need to know much about Islam to share the good news with Muslims, but the Christian does need to know the written word from God & the Living Word of God. Listen to discover how the Bible can be use...

Recorded on 5 September 2024 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr David Randall chairs a webinar with Dr Ewan Goligher Physician-assisted death is increasingly advocated as a patient-centered and compassionate response to the deep suffering faced by our patients. Christianity has traditionally opposed this practice as immoral and alien to medicine, but many question this opposition or struggle to defend it or a...

Recorded on 29 August 2024 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Emil Shehadeh While Christians believe the Bible to be the Word of God, we accept that the authors are human, but inspired by the Holy Spirit to write. Muslims believe the Qur’an was authored by Allah, who keeps an original copy in heaven. The Qur’an is apparently perfect in every respect, unchanged and uncha...

Recorded on 22 August 2024 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Marion Knell “Long an occupational hazard among social workers, burnout is a growing problem among those on the front lines, including aid workers, medical professionals, legal services providers and resettlement volunteers.” - Katia Savchuck (The Development Set) (Bright Magazine) Those experiencing burnout are...

Recorded on 15 August 2024 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Felicia Wong chairs a webinar with Dr Päivi Räsänen Finland has a good reputation regarding free speech internationally and long, historical roots in the Christian confession. It is paradoxical that in this country Päivi has been criminally charged for voicing her deeply held beliefs about marriage and gender that are based on classical Christianit...