Episode 14
Faith, Medicine & Human Dignity
Featuring Dr. Kristin Collier
April 1, 2026
Dr. Kristin Collier, director of the University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality, and Religion, joins host Gerson Moreno-Riaño on the Wisdom and Influence podcast at Cornerstone University for a wide-ranging conversation on faith, medicine, and human dignity. Dr. Collier shares her journey from skepticism to Christianity, recounting how confronting patient suffering as a medical student led her through anti-theism before a transformative encounter with the gospel. The discussion explores the concept of the Imago Dei in medical practice, critiquing reductive anthropologies that treat human beings as machines, commodities, or material to be optimized. Dr. Collier addresses pressing bioethical concerns including artificial intelligence in healthcare, physician-assisted suicide, and in vitro fertilization, arguing that a faithful vision of the human person must ground medical practice. Listeners will gain a thoughtful framework for how Christian theology—particularly the incarnation and resurrection—can reshape the way physicians understand suffering, dignity, and the vocation of medicine.