New Publications

The second edition of Bernard Palmer's popular book Cure for Life is now available through CMF. The book has also been translated into Albanian, and we are presently seeking to publish it through a partner organisation in that country. Meanwhile work continues on the other three books mentioned in the last edition of CMF News: Christian Distinctives in Medicine, Hard Questions about Healing and Mad, Bad or Sad?

Matters of Life and Death

This popular book by John Wyatt, which is already available in English and French editions, has now been translated into Russian and should be printed by the end of the year. There are now groups of Christian doctors and medical students established in about 20 cities throughout the former USSR, including many new converts, so the project is timely. MLD is currently being translated into Spanish and we have had enquiries from people offering to help with Hungarian, Romanian and Arabic editions.

New CMF Website and CD-ROM

The new CMF website was finally launched in early September and has had a warm reception. Like the 2000 edition it is also available on CD-ROM and contains over 8000 articles including 41 full editions of Nucleus and 19 of Triple Helix, in pdf (full design) as well as text format. Check it out on www.cmf.org.uk.

Free books

Over 300 Christian doctors and medical students from developing countries received a free pack of CMF books valued at over £40 each at the ICMDA Conference in July. If our faith (and finances) had stretched further we could have used another 200. CMF's publications were particularly welcome to delegates from countries with little or no Christian medical literature of their own. English is increasingly the language of medicine, science and the internet, and Christian doctors all over the world are increasingly facing the same issues.

Ethics for Schools

www.ethicsforschools.org is a new CMF website designed for students and teachers involved in religious studies and philosophy/ethics courses at GCSE and AS/A2 level which was launched on 25 September this year. It contains over 300 articles from CMF publications on bioethics and apologetics issues. The same week the religious studies departments of the 3,000 largest secondary schools in the UK were sent a complimentary set of CMF Files and information about CMF publications. The website is also available on CD-ROM. Why not purchase some copies for your local secondary school? (See insert in Triple Helix)

Publications Fund needs support

With all of these new projects, and the fact that we haven't specifically appealed for some time, the CMF publications fund is currently at low ebb. If you would like to help top it up, so that we can continue with more projects like those on this page, then please feel welcome!