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Author Index - Trevor Stammers

Trevor Stammers is a GP, a lecturer in Bioethics at St Mary's University College in Twickenham, and was Chairman of CMF from 2007 - June 2009

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Biblical and Pastoral Response to Homosexuality (triple helix - spring 2013)

Resources for Church Leaders Andrew Goddard and Don Horrocks (eds) - Evangelical Alliance, 2012 - £7.00 Pb 144pp - ISBN 9780957244801 - This very useful resource is an update of the EA's 1998 report Faith Hope and Homosexuality (FHH). It will be of value to CMF members as well as the target...
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cmf file 48 (2012) - brain death (CMF files)

Brain death - 'Death hath ten thousand several doors for men to take their exits' but there can be little argument about the importance of making sure the door is forever firmly shut behind them, before declaring any individual dead. (1) Only after confirmation of his or her death can a medical...
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you're teaching my child what? (triple helix - summer 2011)

Miriam Grossman - Regnery 2009 - £16.99 Hb 243 pp - ISBN 978 1 59698 554 4 - - With children as young as seven being taught in class that touching their clitoris or penis gives them a nice feeling without warning that such touching can be inappropriate (or even constitute sexual abuse depending on...
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More quangos for the bonfire? (triple helix - Christmas 2010)

Time for some truly independent advisors - Among the quangos due for dissolution are the Teenage Pregnancy Independent Advisory Group (TPIAG) and the Independent Advisory Group on Sexual Health and HIV (IAGSH). Since TPIAG was set up in 1998 to halve the national under-18 conception rate by 2010,...
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Forgiving the impossible? (triple helix - summer 2010)

From abuse to freedom and hope Greta Randle - IVP 2010 - £7.99 Pb 144pp - ISBN 978 1 84474 433 6 - - This is a sobering story for those who think that sexual abuse of children takes place only outside the church, or mainly in one sector of the church, if the church is involved at all. It happens in...
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Just sex - is it ever just sex? (triple helix - Christmas 2009)

- Guy Brandon IVP 2009 - £9.99 - Pb 224pp - ISBN 978 1 84474 371 1 - - This is vital stuff' says Romance Academy director, Rachel Gardner, in her foreword and so it is. As the author, a theologian at Cambridge's Jubilee Centre, clearly recognises, it is also a book many readers may consider...
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treasures of the darkness (triple helix - Christmas 2009)

key points - From scripture, the author, a GP and academic, describes lessons learned during a previous long period of depression as 'treasures hidden in the darkness'. Confessing that 'the commonest weakness of Christians in medicine is probably our determination to have our own way' he came to...
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Like a virgin? (triple helix - Easter 2009)

The details prove that social factors encouraging virginity do show benefit - The Chief Medical Officer advocates total abstinence from alcohol for under-15s, (1 ) but encouraging abstinence from underage sex is usually ridiculed. No surprise therefore that misleading headlines about a new study...
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CMF File 37 (2008) - Teenage Sex (CMF files)

CMF File 4 on Adolescent Sexuality came out in 1998. Since then, sexual behaviour in that age group has continued to change, the law has changed in one respect, and there have been some relevant medical advances. This File is therefore an update, and continues to argue that God's plan for human...
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Approaching the End - A theological exploration of death and dying (Book Review) (triple helix - Easter 2008)

Approaching the End - A theological exploration of death and dying - David Albert Jones - Oxford University Press 2007 - £55.00 Hb 242pp - ISBN 0 19928 7155 - This scholarly work by a professor of bioethics looks at two questions: 'How can we live well in the face of death?' and 'When is it...
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