Tan is loved by all until the day love turns into a dark obsession. The beautiful young woman is murdered in her bedroom while her friends celebrate her recent marriage. Her three lovers are all suspected, yet the murder goes unsolved. All is calm on the tenth anniversary of Tan's murder until her most impassioned lover and the prime suspect returns for vengeance on all rivals and survivors. In the midst of the chaos, her only son vanishes without a trace. Lust, lies and deadly secrets are revealed. All illusions are destroyed including the identity of the true killer.

There is a surge of fake news overtaking media outlets in the twenty-first century. This stands in stark contrast to the unbiased objective truth. Integrity and truth seem to have become secondary to the desire to sensationalize and sway opinions. How do we respond to this overwhelming saturation of lies and false teachings? As Christians, we are uniquely positioned to know and represent truth as revealed by the one true God. First, we must look to the source of truth, God and his word. Second, we must be able to discern and recognize both truth and lies in what we are being told and in our culture. Third, we must become agents of truthindividuals who live, speak, and promote truth. Join us for a daily devotional as we explore scriptures that will guide us in our search for truth.

What, exactly, does it mean to be human? It is an age-old question, one for which theology, philosophy, science, and medicine have all provided different answers. But though a unified response to the question can no longer be taken for granted, how we answer it frames the wide range of different norms, principles, values, and intuitions that characterize today's bioethical discussions. If we don't know what it means to be human, how can we judge whether biomedical sciences threaten or enhance our humanity? This fundamental question, however, receives little attention in the study of bioethics. In a field consumed with the promises and perils of new medical discoveries, emerging technologies, and unprecedented social change, current conversations about bioethics focus primarily on questions of harm and benefit, patient autonomy, and equality of health care distribution. Prevailing models of medical ethics emphasize human capacity for self-control and self-determination, rarely considering such inescapable dimensions of the human condition as disability, loss, and suffering, community and dignity, all of which make it difficult for us to be truly independent. In Health and Human Flourishing, contributors from a wide range of disciplines mine the intersection of the secular and the religious, the medical and the moral, to unearth the ethical and clinical implications of these facets of human existence. Their aim is a richer bioethics, one that takes into account the roles of vulnerability, dignity, integrity, and relationality in human affliction as well as human thriving. Including an examination of how a theological anthropology—a theological understanding of what it means to be a human being—can help us better understand health care, social policy, and science, this thought-provoking anthology will inspire much-needed conversation among philosophers, theologians, and health care professionals.