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God Listens

By Al Weir, MD | December 3, 2024

“And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it” (John 14:13-14, NIV).

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Scientific Evidence Versus Ideology

By Steven A. Foley, MD | December 3, 2024

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) positions itself as a leader in scientific knowledge; however, this commitment seem to falter when it comes to care for transgender patients. Is it because ACOG’s focus is not on scientific evidence but primarily on ideology?

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Protecting the Vulnerable After the 2024 Election

By Jeffrey Barrows, DO, MA (Bioethics) | November 26, 2024

A frequent quip during an election year is that elections matter, and 2024 was no exception. Now that the 2024 election is over, I want to explore how this election will likely impact our efforts here at CMDA to protect the vulnerable.

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Durres

By Al Weir, MD | November 26, 2024

“Then Moses said to God, ‘If I come to the people of Israel and say to them, “The God of your fathers has sent me to you,” and they ask me, “What is his name?” what shall I say to them?’ God said to Moses, ‘I AM WHO I AM…’” (Exodus 3:13-14, ESV).

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Bookend Stories

By Al Weir, MD | November 19, 2024

“For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor heigh, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 8:38-39, ESV).

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Fetal Care Versus Fatal Cure

By David Prentice, PhD | November 18, 2024

“Prenatal care has become the biggest barrier to postnatal life.” This lament by a dear friend who is a neonatologist points to the fact that it is often our attitude toward “the least of these” that determines their outcomes, and it is especially true for those diagnosed in the womb with developmental anomalies.

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Praying for Magic

By Al Weir, MD | November 12, 2024

“…the Egyptian magicians also did the same things by their secret arts: Each one threw down his staff and it became a snake…” (Exodus 7:11-12, NIV).

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Ruminations on Behavior

By Robert E. Cranston, MD, MA (Ethics) | November 7, 2024

The environment we live in influences our behavior, and this includes the people we spend time with, the things we read or watch, our social media engagement and our leisure activities.

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Reformation & Luther Tour 2025

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | November 6, 2024

October 11-23, 2025
Join us for a transformative journey to the heart of the Reformation!

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On the Side: November 2024

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | November 6, 2024

The burden of a friend’s pain is heavy. I’m with you. But Paul’s letter to Philippi reminds us that God is faithful in carrying them until the day of Christ. Maybe you’re the friend with the burden. We’re with you!

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Stopping the Train

By Al Weir, MD | November 5, 2024

“But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us” (2 Corinthians 4:7, NIV).

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100 Percent Truth: Women’s Health Matters

By Nicole D. Hayes | November 4, 2024

Over the last year or more, pro-life healthcare professionals have taken to various media platforms to speak truth and dismantle lies surrounding emergency medical care that will, in fact, be provided to women experiencing pregnancy complications.

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Indispensable Me

By Al Weir, MD | October 29, 2024

“But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us” (2 Corinthians 4:7, NIV).

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“Gender-affirming Healthcare” for Adults: Is It Helpful?

By Andrè Van Mol, MD | October 28, 2024

With transgender interventions on minors, aka “gender-affirming healthcare” (formerly transgender-affirming therapy), falling and failing under scrutiny in about half the U.S. states and numerous nations, it was predictable that proponents of gender transition ideology would double down on claiming it is proven to help adults with gender dysphoria/transgender identification.

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Empty Cradles, Empty Nurseries

By Steven Willing, MD | October 24, 2024

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 problem? What are the causes? What are the solutions?

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Empty Vessels

By Al Weir, MD | October 22, 2024

“While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit came on all who heard the message” (Acts 10:44, NIV).

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A Compelling Argument

By Al Weir, MD | October 15, 2024

“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End” (Revelation 22:13, NIV).

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Stand Against Deception

By Steven A. Foley, MD | October 10, 2024

The case involves a 41-year-old patient by the name of Amber Thurman who went to North Carolina to get a surgical abortion. She was late to her appointment, probably secondary to traffic, and so she was given the first dose of Mifepristone and told to go home and take the second pill of Misoprostol when she got home.

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Gender Dysphoria Fact Sheet

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | October 9, 2024

Gender identity issues are complex in today’s culture. “Transgender” individuals refer to their “gender” as a sexual identity that is different than their biologic sex on the basis of an internal sense or feeling. This self-identification differs from their biological sex, and it takes priority over their physical biology as recognized in their chromosomal DNA and innate physical sexual characteristics.

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Christian Medical & Dental Associations announces victory to protect conscience freedoms

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | October 8, 2024

Bristol, Tenn.—October 8, 2024—Christian Medical & Dental Associations (CMDA), which is the nation’s largest faith-based professional healthcare association, today announced a pivotal victory when the U.S. Supreme Court denied the federal government’s request to hear the case Becerra v. State of Texas. This decision upholds the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit’s ruling, which protects the conscience freedoms of healthcare professionals from being forced to perform abortions.

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Loving God

By Al Weir, MD | October 8, 2024

“This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son…” (1 John 4:10, NIV).

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Untidy Suffering

Untidy Suffering

By Ruth Lindberg | October 3, 2024

Just months before the end of our four-year term in Nepal, a young mother died at our hospital. Though our staff did nothing wrong and worked tirelessly to save her, those local leaders took advantage of the situation to foment hostility. Before we knew it, a volatile, angry mob was at our door, making demands and threats.

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Embracing Suffering as Part of Our Calling: Submitting Our Circumstances to His Will

Embracing Suffering

By Dr K | October 3, 2024

I am a family medicine physician three years out of residency seeking to rejoice in what I am suffering for the sake of His body. I live with my husband and our three young children, with a fourth on the way, in a Central Asian country run by a terrorist group very much in need of the gospel.

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On the Side: October 2024

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | October 2, 2024

The burden of a friend’s pain is heavy. I’m with you. But Paul’s letter to Philippi reminds us that God is faithful in carrying them until the day of Christ. Maybe you’re the friend with the burden. We’re with you!

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Family

By Al Weir, MD | October 1, 2024

“For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name” (Ephesians 3:14-15, NIV).

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A Tribute to My Brother, Now Gone

By Amy Givler, MD | September 26, 2024

Three months of thoughtful reflection later, I’m now utterly convinced of the brevity of life. Life is fragile and precious. People deserve my time. Every minute counts.

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Jehovah Mephalti

By Al Weir, MD | September 24, 2024

“In my distress I called to the Lord, and he answered me” (Psalm 120:1, ESV).

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The Pain of Second Chances

By Al Weir, MD | September 17, 2024

“The Lord said to me, ‘Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another man and is an adulteress…’” (Hosea 3:1, NIV).

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ACOG Reveals Their True Priorities

By Steven A. Foley, MD | September 12, 2024

If the electorate is not transparently educated about the devastation these amendments will bring, we can almost be assured the trickery used by abortion proponents will result in permanent loss. Repealing constitutional amendments is extremely difficult, so we must pray and do everything we can to oppose the amendments.

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Desert Ridges

By Al Weir, MD | September 11, 2024

“Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation?” (Job 38:4a, NIV).

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Friction

By Al Weir, MD | September 3, 2024

When we struggle, a painful friction changes us, and the change provides new opportunities for His glory.

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On the Side: September 2024

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | September 3, 2024

nd so it happened that one week before move-in day for my baby, I saw a dog that seemed to need me. I looked at my husband and said I think I will fill out this application. My dog-loving hubby told me to go right ahead.

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Protecting Life Before Actions Can’t be Undone: 2024 State Abortion Ballot Amendments

By Nicole D. Hayes | August 30, 2024

If the electorate is not transparently educated about the devastation these amendments will bring, we can almost be assured the trickery used by abortion proponents will result in permanent loss. Repealing constitutional amendments is extremely difficult, so we must pray and do everything we can to oppose the amendments.

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New Research Exposed Anti-Christian Bias in Residency Admissions

By Steven Willing, MD | August 29, 2024

Progressive and left-wing bias in American centers of higher education is a fact so universally recognized it is barely worth mentioning. “A worrying new study suggests that young doctors with known conservative inclinations would fare worse in residency placement.”

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The Real You Inside

By Al Weir, MD | August 27, 2024

“I am too ashamed and disgraced, my God, to lift up my face to you, because our sins are higher than our heads and our guilt has reached to the heavens” (Ezra 9:6, NIV).

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Turning a Blind Eye to the Lack of Statistics

By Steven A. Foley, MD | August 20, 2024

A recent article published in The New England Journal of Medicine titled “Rape, Homicide, and Abortion Bans – The Abandonment of People Subjected to Sexual and Intimate Partner Violence” is another example that abortion advocates have a single focus: to allow abortion on demand throughout pregnancy.

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Naturally Sticky

By Al Weir, MD | August 20, 2024

On the last day of our Spring Canyon vacation with most of our children and all our grandchildren, after the adult time of worship and spiritual message, my son and his wife went to collect their two children from the children’s program.

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The Power and Permanence of State Amendments

By Jeffrey Barrows, DO, MA (Bioethics) | August 15, 2024

The pro-abortion forces in our country now recognize an effective path forward to remove all abortion restrictions around the country. It requires spending tens of millions of dollars, but it’s well worth it since that money will be earned back from all the abortions that will be allowed once state amendments are passed.

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Calling and Discernment

By Ann Thyle, MD | August 14, 2024

The hospital lacked a blood bank, providing only refrigeration for limited-time storage in sterile glass bottles with rubber stoppers. The nearest blood bank, a three-hour round trip bus ride away, was too prolonged for emergency transfusions. Relatives routinely refused to be donors. They developed mysterious illnesses, or denied family affiliation, or simply ran away.

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Wounded Alleluia

By Stephen W. Smith | August 14, 2024

A wounded alleluia is perhaps the universal song every human being sings at some time in their lives. Just this week, dear friends wrote to us that their six-year-old granddaughter was just diagnosed with a life-threatening cancer. My morning alleluias of walking in my garden, watching my flowers grow and listening to the mountain birds sing their praise, got broken.

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Your Call Blog

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | August 13, 2024

Your Call™ has been created to encourage and keep those with a “call” focused on that “call.” It shares advice from missionaries with experience on the field, information about working in hard-to-access countries, stories from the field, etc. If you are one of those people with a “call” this blog is for you.

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Forevermore

By Al Weir, MD | August 13, 2024

My wife and I chose to use our vacation money this year to invite our kids and grandkids to a Christian ranch in Colorado. Today we were gathered in a worship service at Spring Canyon Ranch, where the hook of Mount Princeton is rising in the distance

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At the Table or On the Menu

By Robert E. Cranston, MD, MA (Ethics) | August 12, 2024

On June 18, 2024, Miles Meline highlighted a recent study published in The American Journal of Bioethics called, “Bioethicists Today: Results of the Views in Bioethics Survey,” which confirmed Smith’s, and in general our, worst suspicions.

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A Question of Place

By Al Weir, MD | August 6, 2024

I have been managing his prostate cancer for 10 years. During that time, his wife left him and all his children moved elsewhere. He loves the Lord deeply. His sister wants him to come live with her in Texas. His daughter wants him to come and live with her in Alabama.

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On the Side: August 2024

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | August 5, 2024

I had delayed answering for too long, because she was rephrasing the question yet again. “Where do you go when you want to find the truth?”

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A Call to Engage in Contemporary Culture

By Steven A. Foley, MD | August 5, 2024

We are living under common grace. As Colson states it, “God’s power sustains creation holding back sin and evil because of the fall and that would otherwise overwhelm his creation like a great flood.” We can be incredibly thankful for that common grace, but what is our role? What is our responsibility in holding back evil?

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Clean Evangelism

By Al Weir, MD | July 30, 2024

Last Sunday I looked to the choir loft of my local church and spotted a man whose father I knew when I served in Nigeria as a medical missionary. Today, I found my diary and located my account of his father:

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Transgender Identification Ethics Statement

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | July 24, 2024

A novel way of thinking about one’s body has entered into popular culture. “Transgender” individuals refer to their “gender” as a sexual identity that may be male or female, something in between, or neither. This self-identification differs from, and takes priority over, their biological sex as recognized in their chromosomal DNA and innate physical sexual characteristics.

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Circus in Town

By Al Weir, MD | July 23, 2024

My faith, that hope grounded in certainty, was not imagined by a heartfelt desire. It was fully grounded on the character, capacity and commitment of my father.

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See You Later

By Al Weir, MD | July 16, 2024

“‘O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?’ The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Corinthians 15:55-57, ESV).

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Lies, Love and Civil Discourse

By Robert E. Cranston, MD, MA (Ethics) | July 11, 2024

Today, recognizing the numerous forms of lying to which we are tempted, our communication is to be characterized by veracity, courage and love. Especially in our highly polarized society, when we see the stakes of political decisions as being so high, it is tempting to fudge the truth to win an argument, or avoid speaking the truth, in order to keep the peace and avoid painful confrontation.

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Steadfast

By Al Weir, MD | July 9, 2024

“Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves…” (Ephesians 4:14, NIV).

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R2ED Out Loud

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | July 3, 2024

Our mission is to educate, inspire, and empower listeners to understand and combat racial injustice. Through in-depth discussions, personal narratives, Biblical referencing, and expert insights, we aim to amplify marginalized voices, challenge systemic inequalities, and foster a more inclusive and equitable society. We are committed to promoting empathy, understanding, and actionable change by providing a platform for critical conversations about race, justice, and humanity.

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The Big Gamble

By Al Weir, MD | July 2, 2024

“…I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until that day” (2 Timothy 1:12, NIV).

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On the Side: July 2024

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | July 2, 2024

My physician hubby and I just celebrated 33 years married. 33 years. 25 of those I have been married to a physician. (The first eight he was an aerospace engineer but don’t get me started on the bliss of having a NASA engineer as a husband and the flex schedule that meant he had a three-day weekend twice a month!)

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The Anxious Generation

By Steven Willing, MD | July 1, 2024

Are skyrocketing rates of mental illness among the young caused by smartphones? A growing chorus of mental health professionals and research psychologists say “absolutely yes.” What does the evidence show, what can we do about it and why are religious conservatives largely being spared?

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World

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | June 26, 2024

Your healthcare is vitally important—but in today’s world, it’s just as critical that your healthcare professionals understand your faith and know how to incorporate your values into your care. When you see a Christian healthcare professional for your healthcare needs, you know your faith will be respected and valued. That’s part of our ministry at CMDA. As the nation’s largest faith-based professional healthcare organization, we represent thousands of healthcare professionals who are dedicated to standing together and advocating for biblical values in healthcare. Encourage your healthcare professionals to join CMDA today, and learn how you can join us in bringing the HOPE and HEALING of CHRIST to the world through HEALTHCARE.

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Lifeline

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | June 26, 2024

An exclusive Lifetime Member benefits and the first webinar series of its kind at CMDA! Throughout this inaugural series you will have a unique opportunity to interact and engage with CMDA leaders and hear updates about the impact you and your membership have in CMDA’s Strategic Plan and the four Key Result Areas: Community, Advocacy, Service and Equipping (CASE).

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Praying for Dogs

By Al Weir, MD | June 25, 2024

I prayed for a dog today. I’m not a dog-lover; I’m a dog-liker, but I prayed for Hershey today. A young man who had fallen on hard times called me today, a friend I had not heard from in years, but I had prayed for him regularly.

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Missionaries

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | June 24, 2024

Thank you for your interest in healthcare missions! Below, you will find information on a CMDA member who is a healthcare missionary. Please consider signing up for their prayer letter, encouraging them, supporting them, and reaching out them to make a connection.

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2026 CMDA National Convention

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | June 18, 2024

April 23-26, 2026
“I lift my eyes to the hills… My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.” Join us in Loveland, Colorado for the most incredible CMDA National Convention in our history! You simply don’t want to miss this year’s event!

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Business-model Seeking

By Al Weir, MD | June 18, 2024

If I become a private practice doctor, I might win four people to Christ in my life; but, as a missionary doctor, I could win 400? If I am a preacher, I would win 800? Should we not do for God that which brings the best outcomes? It’s certainly honorable to try. Such thinking works for Microsoft; does it work for Christ?

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A Declaration Heard Around the World: Protect Our Children from Harm

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | June 13, 2024

Whether a healthcare professional, legislator, mother, father or concerned citizen, it should be our highest priority to protect children. Several healthcare professionals, healthcare organizations and others are doing just that.

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Selfish with Sadness

By Al Weir, MD | June 11, 2024

“Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her” (Ephesians 5:25, ESV).

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Suffering and Facing Death

By JC Bicek | June 6, 2024

No fewer than 20 states introduced assisted suicide bills so far in 2024, and polling suggests the majority of Americans are sympathetic to the cause. According to the stats, this must mean a number of supporters would at least call themselves Christians, which strikes me as a sad development considering the rich tradition of Christian thought regarding how we should live in our final days.

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On the Side: June 2024

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | June 4, 2024

“…let us lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross…”
Hebrews 12:1-2

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Faithful

By Al Weir, MD | June 4, 2024

“Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her” (Ephesians 5:25, ESV).

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What Foundation Do Ideas of Ethics Have if Darwin is Right?

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | June 1, 2024

Charles Darwin’s great idea was that biological change could be endless if small, beneficial, naturally occurring variations could be selectively preserved and grow because of initially small survival advantages. He provided no theory of beginnings, only of process, which did not concern him too much because Aristotle’s belief in the eternity of matter had not been disproved. Furthermore, micro-evolution occurs all the time as Darwin describes so beautifully in the first chapter of On the Origin of Species.

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Theology of Mythology: Of God and gods, Angels and Demons

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | June 1, 2024

The people of ancient Palestine in Israel and Judea saw angels in anthropomorphic form, and they encountered demons inhabiting humans and animals. The angels (or even the Trinity) could eat at their table, unlock gates and move stones.

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Inconsistent Ideology from ACOG

By Steven A. Foley, MD | May 30, 2024

How can the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG) fully support gender-affirmation surgery but strongly condemn female genital mutilation?

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The Cass Review Final Report (UK), 2024

By Andrè Van Mol, MD | May 29, 2024

The final Cass Independent Review of Gender Identity Services for Children and Young People was released in April 2024.

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Mission in the Mess

By Al Weir, MD | May 28, 2024

“…Instead I am single-minded: Forgetting the things that are behind and reaching out for the things that are ahead, with this goal in mind, I strive toward the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 3:13-14, NET).

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Seasoned

By Al Weir, MD | May 22, 2024

“Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person” (Colossians 4:6, NIV).

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Grabbing For Jesus

By Al Weir, MD | May 14, 2024

“As for other matters, brothers and sisters, pray for us that the message of the Lord may spread rapidly and be honored…” (2 Thessalonians 3:1, NASB).

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On the Side: May 2024

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | May 8, 2024

The best title of all to have, I think, is the title of “Redeemed.” No matter what other titles we may have, no matter how noble or glorious they are, compared to Redeemed, they all seem to shrink in importance.

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Excellence

By Al Weir, MD | May 7, 2024

“Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters” (Colossians 3:23, NIV).

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God’s Sandwich

By Al Weir, MD | April 30, 2024

One of my favorite patients is a part-time pastor. At the beginning of his visit this week, he shared a frustrating story from the day before. “I was standing in the line at Subway, telling the woman how to fix my sandwich.

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Unavailable

By Al Weir, MD | April 23, 2024

I stepped into the fellows’ room to share a bit of wisdom: “You guys are not yet practicing medicine but will get there soon enough. Let me tell you how to build your practice.

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The Debasement of Title IX

By Jeffrey Barrows, DO, MA (Bioethics) | April 23, 2024

The latest update to Title IX regulations, introduced by the Biden Administration, will be devastating for women’s sports.

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8 Principles of Sound Christian Thinking

By Steven Willing, MD | April 22, 2024

Beliefs have consequences. All other things being equal, false beliefs have worse consequences. Pick any issue on which people are divided. COVID treatments? Sexuality? Evolution? It doesn’t matter what.

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Opioid and Substance Use Disorder Identification & Treatment

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | April 18, 2024

2023-2025
CE COURSE AVAILABLE: The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 reauthorized major funding sources for substance use prevention, treatment, and recovery services and included three bills intended to facilitate the integration of behavioral health and primary care.

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Scholarship | Wayne & Vivian Day Mission’s Scholarship

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | April 16, 2024

The Wayne & Vivian Day Scholarship is available to students and trainees participating in cross -cultural, short-term healthcare missions opportunities including GHO trips.

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Pentecost

By Al Weir, MD | April 16, 2024

He was cancer free but suffering from complications of therapy. “This ain’t nothing,” he declared. “In the 80s I was shooting up drugs every day. I would find myself watching my hand inject the drugs and tell it to stop, but it wouldn’t. I even tried to commit suicide. I took an extra-large dose of the drug and injected it.

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Hope-Hopping

By Al Weir, MD | April 10, 2024

“We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure…” (Hebrews 6:19, NIV).

We reviewed his CT in our multidisciplinary conference after treating his cancer with radioembolization.

I brought him good news: “Right now, I’m optimistic. There’s no evidence of cancer on your scan.”

He replied, “Optimist nothing, Doc. God said, ‘It is finished,’ and that’s all I need. That’s where my hope lies.”

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Xenotransplantation: What’s New and Should We Be Concerned?

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | April 9, 2024

In the last month, a patient with kidney failure was discharged from the hospital, off dialysis, with a new kidney—from a genetically modified pig. What an incredible accomplishment.

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On the Side: April 2024

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | April 8, 2024

Moving is an art form. It’s also an invitation to be gentle with ourselves and fall into the arms of Grace.

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Responding to ACOG…Again

By Steven A. Foley, MD | April 4, 2024

On February 27, 2024, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) released a “Consensus Statement on Threats to Reproductive and Maternal Health Care.” ACOG and 12 other organizations act as though they are speaking on behalf of all OB/Gyns to further their agenda that abortion is healthcare. I would like to respond, because they do not speak on my behalf.

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Hanging By a Thread

By Al Weir, MD | April 2, 2024

“For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all” (2 Corinthians 4:17, NIV).

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GCDC

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | April 2, 2024

This inaugural Great Commission Dental Conference will feature over thirty presenters, speaking on a wide range of topics – short term mission trips, long term ministry, teaching trips, private practice ministry, community clinic involvement, missionary dental equipment, funding missionary activity, et cetera. There will be something for everyone at this meeting, including sweet fellowship with others of like mind from across the country and around the world. All dental personnel and students are invited to join us for this unique meeting of Christian dental professionals!

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Why You Need Church

By Amy Givler, MD | March 28, 2024

A 2023 report by Pew Research Center reported that 13 percent of Americans reported attending in-person worship services in the summer of 2020. I was not one of them. Until we had a vaccine, I did not want people gathering in groups.

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Gracefully Broken

By Al Weir, MD | March 26, 2024

“The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise” (Psalm 51:17, ESV).

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LGBTQIA+ and the Political Divide

By Elizabeth Woning | March 21, 2024

To many, the Sexual Revolution evokes nothing more than memories of the summer of love, the emergence of contraception and the “freedom” for sexual expression. However, after years of warnings by Christian cultural commentators, the Sexual Revolution has overtaken the mainstream.

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The Nudge

By Al Weir, MD | March 19, 2024

“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth” (Acts 1:8, NIV).

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Bulvarism and Bias: Responding to Flawed Scholarship

By Stephen Perona, PharmD, BCEMP, BCPS | March 18, 2024

In early 2023, I read the article “Gender bias in postgraduate year one pharmacy letters of recommendation” published by in the Journal of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy. The analysis contained methodological flaws, and it presented conclusions that were not derived from the evidence presented.

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Fickle Faith

By Al Weir, MD | March 12, 2024

He is one of our few remaining World War II heroes at 97—a retired pastor, still alert, able to walk with a cane, writing great stories about his life and sharing wisdom that only comes with experience.

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The Status of Frozen Children

By Jeffrey Barrows, DO, MA (Bioethics) | March 11, 2024

Anyone paying close attention to current events has likely heard about the Alabama Supreme Court decision declaring that frozen embryos created through IVF are legally children under the state’s constitution. The legal case arose when a person unauthorized by an IVF clinic destroyed frozen embryos from three Alabama couples who later filed a lawsuit against the clinic.

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ACOG Doesn’t Speak on My Behalf

By Steven A. Foley, MD | March 7, 2024

In this statement, ACOG is calling for “the ability of every patient to access abortion when they need it…,” while further claiming that “abortion is an essential part of comprehensive healthcare.” As a practicing OB/Gyn, I again cannot stand by and let this organization speak on my behalf.

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I Need to Do Better

By Al Weir, MD | March 5, 2024

He is one of our few remaining World War II heroes at 97—a retired pastor, still alert, able to walk with a cane, writing great stories about his life and sharing wisdom that only comes with experience.

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C.A.S.E.

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | March 5, 2024

Key Result Area Introducing CMDA’s Community Our outreach ministries are dedicated to transforming the lives of healthcare professionals just like you through evangelism and discipleship.   The core of CMDA’s ministry happens in local communities where healthcare professionals, residents and students live out the character of Christ. Campus & Community Specialty Sections Dental Ministries Women Physicians & Dentists Side By Side What Area(s) of CMDA…

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