John F. Kilner, Ph.D. is Franklin Forman Chair of Ethics at Trinity International University in Deerfield, Illinois. He was Senior Associate at The Park Ridge Center for the Study of Health, Faith, and Ethics, and an adjunct faculty member at Northwestern University Medical School, both in Chicago. Prior to his move to the Chicago area, he was an associate professor of social and medical ethics at Asbury Theological Seminary.  After completing a B.A. degree (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) at Yale University, he earned an M.Div. degree (summa cum laude, valedictorian) from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He also holds an A.M. and a Ph.D. "With Distinction" in religious ethics, with an emphasis in bioethics, from Harvard University; there he received Newcombe, Danforth, Eisenhower, DeKarman, Roothbert, Merit, Howe, and Sheldon awards.