Striking the right balance
how can Christian medics decide about industrial action?
Until a decade ago, I was a medic struggling…
Want to change the future?
Having grown up in a TV family, I particularly loved movies that fostered the imagination, especially…
I’m a Christian working in the NHS. The system is broken. Here’s how you can pray for us
I’ve just got home from a shift in the emergency department (ED).
The hospital is in ‘critical incident’…
An appreciation of Sir Eldryd Parry 1931-2022
Sir Eldryd Hugh Owen Parry KCMG OBE, a CMF member, died aged 91 on 13 November 2022. I wanted to write…
Acting with a clear conscience? WMA, GMC, BMA, and moral injury
Having reasonable freedom to act in accordance with our conscience is something that Christian healthcarers…
Praying for patients – punishable or permitted?
A Christian doctor who offered to pray for patients has agreed to attend a course on 'boundaries' after…
Brain death, resurrection, and Archie Battersbee
Since June, when I last wrote about the deeply distressing case of Archie Battersbee, his ventilator…
Wisdom of God or medical wisdom?
I have been working as a midwife for a few years now. As a believer, I am constantly fascinated by God’s…
Always Covid and never Christmas?
What kind of Christmas are you looking forward to? This is the second one impacted by Covid and its restrictions,…
Love in the time of Covid – gospel unity on an astonishingly divisive issue of our time
Are you aware that there is a silent spiritual battle going on within our church families?
I have come…