the CMF podcast
Exploring issues and challenges at the interface of the Christian faith and healthcare.
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183 episodes
Identity | Dr John Greenall
In 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 decad...
Being sent: who am I for the world? | Talk 3 | SC26
In 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.
Becoming: holding onto truth in a confused world | Talk 2 | SC26
In 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 al...
Belonging: knowing who you are before you do anything | Talk 1 | SC26
In 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: Mat...
Dr John Greenall | Introductory session | Student Conference 2026
Dr 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 iden...
Organ donation, transplantation, and trafficking
In 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...
Living for Christ
In 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 healthcar...
Servant leadership for Christians in the NHS
In 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...
Renewed in Christ | Talk 3 | Resident Doctors Conference 2025
In 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.
Working with Physician Assistants | Resident Doctors Conference 2025
In 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 rec...
Raised with Christ | Talk 2 | Resident Doctors Conference 2025
In the second of his Bible talks from Colossians (chapter 2, verses 6-23), Paul Coulter speaks on how Jesus' resurrection brings new life and spiritual freedom to us in our day-to-day.
Assisted suicide - plenary session | Resident Doctors Conference 2025
In the past year, politicians in Westminster and Holyrood have taken active steps towards implementing assisted suicide laws in the UK. In the plenary from this year's CMF Resident Doctors Conference, Dr Susan Marriott (CMF's Head of Public Pol...
Reconciled by Christ | Talk 1 | Resident Doctors Conference 2025
Surrounded as we are by philosophies of self-help, mindfulness, manifesting, and resilience, it's easy to lose confidence in Jesus Christ. As Christian health professionals, we need to recover an approach to life and work that is grounded in hi...
Facing the Future | Talk 3 | National Conference 2025
Our main speaker, Peter Saunders examines Daniel’s resolve to stand firm in his identity, his reliance on God for wisdom, and his boldness in witness, even in the face of trials.This is Talk 3: Facing the Future based on Daniel 9.
Dedicated but Distinct | Talk 2 | National Conference 2025
Our main speaker, Peter Saunders examines Daniel’s resolve to stand firm in his identity, his reliance on God for wisdom, and his boldness in witness, even in the face of trials.This is Talk 2: Dedicated but Distinct based on Daniel 3.
Serving the Sovereign | Talk 1 | National Conference 2025
Our main speaker, Peter Saunders examines Daniel’s resolve to stand firm in his identity, his reliance on God for wisdom, and his boldness in witness, even in the face of trials.This is Talk 1: Serving the Sovereign based on Daniel 1.
Assisted suicide update
Welcome to the relaunched CMF podcast. This is a special, extra episode giving an update on what is happening with the two assisted suicide bills for terminally ill adults that are going through the UK and Scottish Parliaments this month (May 2...
Futility and Hope | Talk 3 | CMF Student Conference 2025
What if human limits aren't a bug but a feature of our humanity? What if learning to live well in God's world actually means learning to love our (unlimited) God's (limited) creature.Over three talks, main speaker Matt Lillicrap delved i...
Receiving Time | Talk 2 | CMF Student Conference 2025
What if human limits aren't a bug but a feature of our humanity? What if learning to live well in God's world actually means learning to love our (unlimited) God's (limited) creature.Over three talks, main speaker Matt Lillicrap delved i...
The Endless Round | Talk 1 | CMF Student Conference 2025
What if human limits aren't a bug but a feature of our humanity? What if learning to live well in God's world actually means learning to love our (unlimited) God's (limited) creature.Over three talks, main speaker Matt Lillicrap delved i...
Jesus + Justice | Talk 3 | CMF Resident Doctors' Conference 2024
‘The Lord is a God of justice.’ (Isaiah 30:18) And so, his followers long for justice. Over three talks, Giles Cattermole explored what Isaiah teaches about God’s justice, our injustice, his solution in the justice of the C...
Womanhood Podcast Episode 6: Meaning in the Menopause
In the last episode of this series, we examine what the female body tells us about God and what it means to be an embodied person during the menopause, the time of change in women's reproductive lives. Please note that ...
Jesus + Justice | Talk 2 | CMF Resident Doctors' Conference 2024
‘The Lord is a God of justice.’ (Isaiah 30:18) And so, his followers long for justice. Over three talks, Giles Cattermole explored what Isaiah teaches about God’s justice, our injustice, his solution in the justice of the C...
Womanhood Podcast Episode 5: Reproductive Lack and Loss
In this episode, we touch on the painful topics of infertility, miscarriage, and stillbirth—experiences of profound grief and suffering. How do we face them as Christians? What hope does Jesus offer in both reproductive loss and lack?<...
Womanhood Podcast Episode 4 | Motherhood: physical and spiritual
In this edition, Grace and Felicia are joined by Jane Petkovic, Grace's mother. In this mother and daughter conversation, they discuss the theology, biblical language, and embodied reality of pregnancy and motherhood and what they tell us about...
