Kilner is the Franklin Forman Chair of Ethics and Theology, professor of bioethics and contemporary culture, and director of the Bioethics Program at Trinity International University. His Dignity and Destiny: Humanity in the Image of God (Eerdmans) won Christianity Today's 2016 Book-of-the-Year Award for the Best Book in Theology or Ethics. More recently, he co-authored Why People Matter (Baker Academic, 2017).