ICMDA Recordings

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 application in non-Western cultural contexts is at times problematic, thus leading principlism to increasingly be critiqued. Some specific areas of divergence center on the integrated, embodied, sacred wholeness of the human, and the very foundational understanding of medicine as a profession.
Dr. Armistead trained at the Medical College of Virginia and Truman East Family Medicine Residency in Kansas City, where he met Dr. Comninellis as a faculty member. Dr. Armistead and his family lived in Pakistan from 1999-2015, providing medical care at Bach Christian Hospital, with a 1 1/2 year stint at Kanad Hospital in the United Arab Emirates when the security situation in Pakistan worsened.
Since returning from Pakistan in 2015, Dr. Armistead has taught family medicine at the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) School of Medicine and was in private practice before joining INMED. He takes medical students for a month-long elective to Zimbabwe annually and teaches international medicine. Since 2015, he has also worked part-time as a CMDA staff worker at VCU.
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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).
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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, helping participants explore what it means to live and die in the hope of Christ. Through structured sessions, discussion, and reflection, it offers both education and spiritual formation. Participants gain a deeper understanding of suffering, palliative care, and Christian teaching on life and death, while being empowered to accompany others with compassion, truth, and pastoral sensitivity.Brad MacKinnon, MA, serves as the Campaign Manager for CMDA Canada. His work includes national advocacy, conscience protection, public presentations, and the development of media and resources to help churches speak credibly about the expansion of euthanasia (MAiD) in Canada. He also leads training for facilitators of CMDA Canada’s program Dying with Christ, Living with Hope. With more than twenty years of experience in church ministry, Brad now equips physicians, pastors, and community members to foster a Christian understanding of death and hope at the grassroots level. He is based in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, and is part of CMDA Canada’s national office team.
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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 that we can test the Gospels for reliability in many ways—and that they pass the test. We will also consider some of the common objections to the Gospels being true.
This webinar is run in partnership with the Forum of Christian Leaders (FOCL).
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Recorded on 18 December 2025 for ICMDA Webinars.
Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Ben Chang
Almost every aspect of modern life has been impacted by the social media revolution, from how we view ourselves, to how we relate with those around us, to how nations are governed.
Underpinning social media platforms are powerful intelligent algorithms that harvest the data we generate when we click, scroll and post, and use these to feed us content design to maintain our attention and keep us scrolling. The result is a society addicted to its screens.
How can Christians navigate this new social media reality? How can we practise self-control in the age of screen-addiction? Do our mere human faculties stand a chance against the intelligent algorithms?
Dr Ben Chang is a speaker, writer and emergency medicine registrar working in London. He is author of the book “Christ and the Culture Wars: Speaking for Jesus in a World of Identity Politics” (Christian Focus Publications), and speaks regularly at conferences, churches and universities on a range of issues including bioethics, technology, cultural engagement and identity politics. He is currently writing a new book about social media.⁠⁠To listen live to future ICMDA webinars visit⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://icmda.net/resources/webinars/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠