Walter Hooper

Walter Hooper, who lives in Oxford, England, was a secretary and companion to Lewis. Hooper is the literary adviser to the C.S. Lewis estate and one of the world’s leading authorities on Lewis. Hooper’s books include, as author, C.S. Lewis: A Complete Guide to His Life & Works (HarperSanFrancisco, 1998) and C.S. Lewis: A Companion and Guide (HarperCollins, 1996). […]

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Damien Keown

Damien Keown is a professor emeritus of Buddhist ethics at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has a particular interest in the ethics of medicine and biotechnology.

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Nuffield Council on Bioethics

The Nuffield Council on Bioethics in the United Kingdom was established in 1991 to identify and assess ethical questions raised by advances in biological and medical research. Since 1994, it has been funded jointly by The Nuffield Foundation, the Medical Research Council and the Wellcome Trust. Two current projects focus on prolonging life in fetuses and the […]

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“Jesus may have been a hermaphrodite, claims academic”

A feminist theologian in England raised eyebrows, to say the least, when she claimed that Jesus may have been a hermaphrodite. In a paper titled “Intersex & Ontology, A Response to The Church, Women Bishops and Provision,” Susannah Cornwall argues that it is not possible to know “with any certainty” that Jesus did not suffer from […]

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