Baylor Ethics in Media
July 14, 2023- Devan Stahl & Anne Jeffrey, Associate Professor of Religion [Stahl] and Assistant Professor of Philosophy [Jeffrey], were interviewed by the Currents In Religions podcast as Primary and Co-Investigator of “Illuminating Theological Inquiry and Christian Ethics Through Training in Psychological Science,” a 2.5 million dollar John Templeton Foundation grant. Sarah Schnitker, Devan Stahl, Natalie Carnes, and Anne Jeffrey all share about grant and how its already helping to cultivate connections between the scholars of religion and the psychological sciences.
(Interdisciplining Theology: How the Psychological Sciences Help Theological Studies)
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June 2, 2023- Paul Martens & Elise Edwards, Associate Professor of Ethics, Director of Interdisciplinary Programs and the Baylor Ethics Initiative [Martens], and Assistant Professor of Religion and co-convener for the Ethics in Leadership research group [Edwards] , were interviewed by the Baylor Connections podcast to share how faculty come together to discuss interdisciplinary issues and sharpen a focus on ethics in their work. (Baylor Connections: Paul Martens and Elise Edwards)
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March 10, 2023- SeyedAmirHossein Asghari, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Religion, was interviewed on the topic of interreligious dialogue about the topic of Natural Law on the Currents In Religions podcast (Natural Law and Interreligious Dialogue: A Conversation with Seyed Amir Hossein Asghari by Currents in Religion)
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February 24, 2023- Paul Martens, Associate Professor of Ethics, Director of Interdisciplinary Programs and the Baylor Ethics Initiative, was interviewed by the Currents In Religions podcast about the ongoing war between Russia and the Ukraine (A Year of War in Ukraine: A Conversation with Paul Martens | Currents in Religion Podcast)
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December 9, 2022- Devan Stahl, Associate Professor of Religion, was interviewed on the topic of disability, eugenics, metaphysics, and how theology can help navigate the ethics of medicine. Listen here on the Currents In Religions podcast (An Era of Soft Eugenics? Devan Stahl on Disability's Challenge to Theology).
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November 17, 2021- Paul Martens, Associate Professor of Ethics, Director of Interdisciplinary Programs and the Baylor Ethics Initiative, was interviewed on the Professors Talk Pedagogy podcast to discuss what is right and wrong about disciplines in the academy and why interdisciplinarity matters for researchers and students. (Paul Martens: Beyond and Between the Disciplines)
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April 23, 2021 - Devan Stahl, Assistant Professor of Bioethics, was interviewed for a story on Evangelical Pastors and the COVID-19 vaccine that appeared on Morning Edition NPR News ('Christians and the Vaccine' project: Combating ethical qualms of evangelical communities).
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October 31, 2020 - Lauren Barron, Director of Medical Humanities, named the inaugural chairholder of the Michael E. DeBakey Chair for Medical Humanities - featured in the Waco Tribune-Herald and Baylor Media and Public Relations (Houston-based Foundation created Chair in Medical Humanities).
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August 7, 2020 - Devan Stahl, Assistant Professor of Bioethics, was interviewed for a story on disability and COVID-19 that appeared on Morning Edition NPR News (One Man’s COVID-19 Death Raises the Worse Fears of Many People with Disabilities).
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July 15, 2020 - Victor Hinojosa, Associate Professor of Political Science, was interviewed for a story on Santa Muerta and smuggling cartels that appeared in the Waco Tribune-Herald (https://wacotrib.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/police-get-crash-course-on-narco-saints-associated-with-drug-cartels/article_14ccc54e-7c51-563e-b88c-836a02a8739a.html).
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July 10, 2020 - Jeff Levin, University Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health, appeared on the Seekers of Meaning Podcast (https://jewishsacredaging.com/jeff-levin-baylor-professor-and-author-of-religion-and-medicine-visits-the-seekers-of-meaning-podcast/).
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July 5, 2020 - Devan Stahl, Assistant Professor of Bioethics, was interviewed for a story on disability and COVID-19 that appeared in the Washington Post (Quadriplegic man’s death from Covid-10 Spotlights Questions of Disability, Race, and Family).
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May 22, 2020 - Jeff Levin, University Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health, articulating the challenges relating to mental health in the age of COVID-19 at the Berkeley Forum (https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/responses/religion-and-mental-health-in-the-age-of-covid-19).
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May 1, 2020 - Jeff Levin, University Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health, was interviewed by CNN (https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/01/world/religion-medicine-coronavirus-wellness-levin/index.html).
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April 24, 2020 - Anne Jeffrey, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, on Baylor Connections (Episode 317) engaging the challenges of COVID-19 for students and professors (https://www.baylor.edu/connections/index.php?id=968787).
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April 13, 2020 - Jeff Levin, University Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health, contributed to a Berkeley Forum addressing the relationship between COVID-19 and Religion (https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/responses/religion-confronts-the-covid-19-outbreak).