About Matthew Eppinette

I am currently a student at Fuller Seminary in Pasadena, California.  I have worked in both the non-profit and for profit sectors in communications, new media, and information technology.  A chapter I wrote, “Human 2.0: Transhumanism as a Cultural Trend,” appears in Everyday Theology: How to Read Texts and Interpret Trends.  A PDF of the chapter is available free from the publisher.  I am also a contributing author to The New Media Frontier, having co-written chapters on podcasting & vlogging and on bioethics & blogging.

About 2BHuman

I have started a number of blogs over the years, some exploring film, some exploring bioethics, and some simply collecting random things that I may want to reference later.  I’ve finally decided to aggregate all of that information at 2BHuman because for me, part of what it means to be human is to learn and grow and remember.  Think of 2BHuman as an opportunity to look over my shoulder.

About Hollywood Bioethics

Hollywood Bioethics is a one to eight-week teaching series exploring the nexus of theology, bioethics, and popular culture — primarily but not exclusively in film.  In it I present a number of bioethics issues, explaining what they are, demonstrating their portrayal in popular culture, and introduce a biblical / theological framework for exploring them.

As a launching point, consider the fact that enduring stories generally share a three-act structure: introduction, complication, resolution. Similarly, the “story” of bioethics can be told in three acts: taking life (abortion, assisted suicide, euthanasia), making life (reproductive technologies, stem cell research, cloning), faking life (neuroethics, cybernetics, artificial intelligence, transhumanism).

Please Note: The views I express here and in my other speaking and writing are my own and do not necessarily those of any organization with which I am affiliated.