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Exploring issues and challenges at the interface of the Christian faith and healthcare.
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Identity | Dr John Greenall
May 100:32:33Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Head of CMF Communications Steve Fouch sits down with the main speaker from this year's CMF Student Conference: Dr John Greenall. They discuss what identity means and why it has become a huge issue over the past couple of decades.Support the show
Transcribe →Being sent: who am I for the world? | Talk 3 | SC26
Apr 1000:34:35Tap to summarizeIn the last of his talks for Student Conference, John Greenall looks at what it means to be sent out by God and what that looks like as Christian health professionals.Support the show
Transcribe →Becoming: holding onto truth in a confused world | Talk 2 | SC26
Apr 100:39:39Tap to summarizeIn his second talk from the CMF Student Conference (2026) Dr John Greenall looks at what happens when our sense of belonging and identity is tested. Who am I when the pressure is on? When my faith is tested? When I find myself struggling and alone?John looks at how we are shaped, transformed, and healed in our identity through our wilderness experiences.Support the show
Transcribe →Belonging: knowing who you are before you do anything | Talk 1 | SC26
Mar 2500:23:36Tap to summarizeIn Dr John Greenall's first talk at the CMF Student Conference 2026, he addresses the questions, Who am I?' What defines me? What does the gospel have to say to me about who I really am? And where do I belong?Focus passage: Matthew 3:13-17Support the show
Transcribe →Dr John Greenall | Introductory session | Student Conference 2026
Mar 1800:18:36Tap to summarizeDr John Greenall, CMF's former Deputy CEO and Head of Student Ministries, speaks about his own journey of faith, his years of ministry of CMF, and begins to outline why a relationship with Jesus is so fundamental to our careers, lives, and identities.This is an introductory session at CMF's Student Conference 2026. Stay tuned for follow-up episodes with the main talks from the conference and more related content!Support the show
Transcribe →Organ donation, transplantation, and trafficking
Jan 700:45:16Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Dr Trevor Stammers is in conversation with CMF's Head of Communications, Steve Fouch, about organ transplantation. Trevor wrote a book in 2023 called The Ethics of Global Organ Acquisition: Moral Arguments about Transplantation. You can find out more and buy a copy from the publisher.He also mentioned Maylis De Kerangal's 2016 award winning Mend the Living, about which you can find out more here. CMF has been writing on these topics for many years, and you can find a selection of our most relevant podcasts here: https://www.cmf.org.uk/tag/organ-donation/Support the show
Transcribe →Living for Christ
Dec 3100:35:33Tap to summarizeIn our final episode of 2025, and our last recording made at November's CMF Residents Conference, Dr Paul Coulter is in conversation with Steve Fouch, CMF's Head of Communications, about what it means to live for Christ as a Christian healthcare professional.Support the show
Transcribe →Servant leadership for Christians in the NHS
Dec 2400:49:49Tap to summarizeIn conversation with Steve Fouch (CMF Head of Communications) at the 2025 CMF Resident Doctors Conference, Dr Paula Busuulwa and Prof. Paul Johnson explore what it means to lead as a Christian health professional in the NHS. CMF has a network of Christians in non-clinical and clinical leadership across the UK's National Health Services and other healthcare sectors. It holds regular online and occasional in-person meetings around the UK, seminars, training programmes and peer support meetings. If you are interested in finding out more, go to: https://cmf.li/CHLNSupport the show
Transcribe →Renewed in Christ | Talk 3 | Resident Doctors Conference 2025
Dec 1700:41:06Tap to summarizeIn his third and final Bible talk from the 2025 CMF Resident Doctors Conference, Dr Paul Coulter explores Colossians 3 and what it means to be renewed in Christ. Support the show
Transcribe →Working with Physician Assistants | Resident Doctors Conference 2025
Dec 1000:31:31Tap to summarizeIn the fourth recording from this year's CMF Resident Doctors' Conference in November, Steve Fouch and Dr Mercy Doni-Kwame discuss Physician Assistants, a group of health professionals who have become increasingly controversial in the UK in recent years. Mercy has a strong background of training and working with Physician Assistants, and brings both a professional engagement and a godly perspective to bear on the issues and the people affected. If you are a Physician or Anaesthesia Assistant, you can now join CMF as an Associate Member - go to cmf.org.uk/join/ for more information.Also, my apologies for the sound quality in this episode - we hope it doesn't detract!Support the show
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