The Theology, Medicine, and Culture initiative invites participants to reimagine and to reengage contemporary practices of health and medicine in light of Christian tradition and the practices of Christian communities.
Duke Theology, Medicine, and Culture initiative
Dr. Emily Smith, Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine and Assistant Research Professor of Global Health at Duke University, explores the intersection of faith, science, and global health through the lens of the parable of the Good Samaritan. Dr. Smith reflects on her experience during the COVID-19 pandemic as the voice behind 'Friendly Neighbor Epidemiologist,' advocating for compassionate public health. Her presentation weaves data with a call to ethical action from a posture of solidarity and neighborly love rooted in both scientific and faith-based principles. This podcast aired in November, 2022.
The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative (TMC) live-streamed this seminar from the annual Practice & Presence gathering at Duke Divinity School on September 23rd, 2022. Brian Volck was interviewed by TMC Faculty member Dr. Martha Carlough for this conversation, entitled "The Art of Living as Creatures." Dr. Volck is a pediatrician and writer with an MD from Washington University in St. Louis and an MFA in creative nonfiction from Seattle Pacific University. He has provided pediatric care at an Indian Health Service hospital on the Navajo Reservation, at an inner-city community health center in Kentucky, rural clinics in Honduras, a storefront pediatric office, a university-affiliated combined internal medicine-pediatrics teaching practice, and a major teaching hospital. He currently divides his time working in Cincinnati as a pediatric hospitalist, the Navajo Reservation as a pediatrician and writer, and Baltimore, Maryland, where he lives.
The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative (TMC) at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on October 21, 2022 with John Swinton, BD, PhD, RMN, RMND titled “Can a Pill Do What the Holy Spirit Could Not?: Psychiatric Medication, Personhood, and Living Faithfully with Mental Health Challenges.” Dr. Swinton is a Professor in Practical Theology and Pastoral Care at the School of Divinity, History, Philosophy & Art History at King's College University of Aberdeen. TMC Seminars are a semi-monthly gathering of faculty, students, clinicians, and others interested in the intersections of theology, medicine, and culture. For more information and recordings, visit tmc.divinity.duke.edu/seminar/.
The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative (TMC) at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on October 7, 2022 with Kristin Collier, MD titled "Reimagining a Theology of Medicine." Dr. Collier is an Associate Professor and Associate Residency Program Director of Internal Medicine at Michigan Medicine, and the Director of the Program on Health, Spirituality, and Religion at University of Michigan Medical School. TMC Seminars are a semi-monthly gathering of faculty, students, clinicians, and others interested in the intersections of theology, medicine, and culture. For more information and recordings, visit tmc.divinity.duke.edu/seminar/.
The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative (TMC) at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on September 9, 2022 with Brett McCarty, ThD titled “Churches Promoting Recovery: Faith-Based Responses to Substance Use Issues.” Dr. McCarty is an Assistant Research Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke Divinity School; Associate Director of the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative; and Assistant Professor in Population Health Sciences, Duke School of Medicine. TMC Seminars are a semi-monthly gathering of faculty, students, clinicians, and others interested in the intersections of theology, medicine, and culture. For more information and recordings, visit tmc.divinity.duke.edu/seminar/.
The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative (TMC) at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on April 1, 2022 with M. Therese Lysaught, PhD. Dr. Lysaught is theologian and bioethicist on faculty at the Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics & Healthcare Leadership in the Stritch School of Medicine. She gave a talk titled "God V. Mammon: Neuroscience, Economics, and the Biopolitics of Morality." TMC Seminars are a semi-monthly gathering of faculty, students, clinicians, and others interested in the intersections of theology, medicine, and culture. For more information and recordings, visit https://tmc.divinity.duke.edu/seminar/.
The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative (TMC) at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on March 4th, 2022 with Jennie Weiss Block, PhD, OP. Dr. Block is an author, theologian, and was the spiritual director of the late Paul Farmer. She gave a talk titled “What I Learned About Accompaniment from Paul Farmer.” TMC Seminars are a semi-monthly gathering of faculty, students, clinicians, and others interested in the intersections of theology, medicine, and culture. For more information and recordings, visit https://tmc.divinity.duke.edu/seminar/.
The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative (TMC) at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on February 4, 2022, with Norbert Wilson, PhD, entitled: “Food Insecurity in the United States: A call to action." TMC Seminars are a semi-monthly gathering of faculty, students, clinicians, and others interested in the intersections of theology, medicine, and culture. For more information and recordings, visit tmc.divinity.duke.edu/seminar/.
The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative (TMC) at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on February 4, 2022, with Norbert Wilson, PhD, entitled: “Food Insecurity in the United States: A call to action." TMC Seminars are a semi-monthly gathering of faculty, students, clinicians, and others interested in the intersections of theology, medicine, and culture. For more information and recordings, visit tmc.divinity.duke.edu/seminar/.
The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative (TMC) at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on January 21st, 2022 with Norman Wirzba, PhD, Gilbert T. Rowe Distinguished Professor of Christian Theology and Senior Fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke. He gave a talk titled "“This Sacred Life: Linking Cosmology and Health." TMC Seminars are a semi-monthly gathering of faculty, students, clinicians, and others interested in the intersections of theology, medicine, and culture. For more information and recordings, visit https://tmc.divinity.duke.edu/seminar/.
The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative (TMC) at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on November 12th, 2021 with John Swinton, BD, PhD, RMN, RNMD, professor in practical theology and pastoral care as well as chair in divinity and religious studies at the University of Aberdeen. He gave a talk titled "Thinking about Theology and Mental Health: Bible, Spirit, and Church." TMC Seminars are a semi-monthly gathering of faculty, students, clinicians, and others interested in the intersections of theology, medicine, and culture. For more information and recordings, visit https://tmc.divinity.duke.edu/seminar/.
The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative (TMC) at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on November 5th, 2021 with Ellen Davis, PhD, Amos Ragan Kearns Distinguished Professor of Bible and Practical Theology and C. Kavin Rowe, PhD, George Washington Ivey Distinguished Professor of New Testament. They led a seminar entitled "Biblical Narratives of Healing." TMC Seminars are a semi-monthly gathering of faculty, students, clinicians, and others interested in the intersections of theology, medicine, and culture. For more information and recordings, visit https://tmc.divinity.duke.edu/seminar/.
Kathryn Butler, MD: "Shepherding Patients and Families Through End-Of-Life Care" by Duke Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative
The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative (TMC) at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on September 17th, 2021 with Brian Volck, MD, MFA, Instructor in Medicine and Theology at St. Mary's Seminary and University. He gave a talk titled "Health, Wholeness, and Humanity: The Stewardship of Creation as if Matter Mattered."
The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative (TMC) at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on September 3rd, 2021 with Patrick Smith, PhD, Associate Research Professor of Theological Ethics and Bioethics at Duke Divinity School. He gave a talk titled "Pursuing Shalom in the Age of COVID-19: Some Theological Considerations."
The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on February 25, 2021 with Keisha Bentley-Edward, PhD, the Associate Director of Research for the Samuel Dubois Cook Center on Social Equity and Assistant Professor at Duke University's School of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine. Her talk is entitled, "The Intersection of Gender and Denomination on Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors for African Americans".
The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on February 25, 2021 with Jeffrey Baker, MD, PhD, the Director of the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities, and History of Medicine, Director of Program in the History of Medicine, and Professor of Pediatrics and History at Duke. His talk is entitled, "COVID-19 and Vaccination Controversies: Historical and Contemporary Considerations".
The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on February 24, 2021 with C. Kavin Rowe, PhD, MDiv and Bradley Gregory, PhD. Dr. Rowe is the George Washington Ivey Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Associate Dean of the Faculty at Duke Divinity School. Dr. Gregory is the Associate Professor of Biblical Studies at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Their talk is entitled, "Saved by Grace through Pharma? The Bible and Preventative Medicine".
Carl Elliot, MD, PhD and Stanley Hauerwas, PhD: (Mal)formation in Medical Training by Duke Theology, Medicine, and Culture initiative
Susan Holman, PhD, MS, MTS: How are early Christian hospitals useful to religious imaginaries today? by Duke Theology, Medicine, and Culture initiative
Sister Teresa Forcades i Vila, MD, PhD, "Health and Salvation: How Are They Related in the Gospels?" by Duke Theology, Medicine, and Culture initiative
Sarah Jean Barton, O.T.R./L., ThD: Spirituality and Disability in Patient Care by Duke Theology, Medicine, and Culture initiative
At 11:00 minutes, there is a break in the recording. At this point in the seminar, Bruce Rogers-Vaughn showed this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuBe93FMiJc
Laurie Zoloth, RN, PhD: Duty and Justice in Jewish Bioethics: The Question of Vaccines and Pandemics by Duke Theology, Medicine, and Culture initiative
Rev. Gloria White-Hammond, MD: African-American Spirituality, Illness, and the Covid-19 Crisis by Duke Theology, Medicine, and Culture initiative
Professor John Swinton "The Spiritual Lives of Christians with Mental Health Challenges” by Duke Theology, Medicine, and Culture initiative
Dr. Farr Curlin speaks with CMDA CEO Dr. Mike Chupp on preserving the way of medicine and protecting conscientious objection as a practice essential to moral medicine. "What we want to say is, 'I am your physician and I am committed to being your physician. To do that, I have to act in a way that is consistent with your health'...We are healers, we are not just technicians for hire."
The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on February 21, 2020 with Randy Clark, DMin, MDiv, who currently serves as adjunct faculty at both United Theological Seminary and Global Awakening Theological Seminary. His talk is entitled, "Jesus's Ministry of Healing."
The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on February 14, 2020 with Tamara Fitzgerald, MD, an Assistant Professor in the Division of Pediatric Surgery at Duke University. Her talk is entitled, "Hearing God's Voice in Our Academic Lives."
The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on January 17, 2020 with Curt Thompson, M.D., who is a psychiatrist in private practice in Falls Church, Virginia. His talk is entitled "Beauty and the Renewal of All Things."
The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on November 1, 2019 with Terri Laws, PhD, Assistant Professor of Health and Human Services and Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies at the University of Michigan at Dearborn. Her talk is entitled, "African American Christianity and Physician Assisted Suicide."
The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on October 18, 2019 with Ray Barfield, MD, PhD, pediatric oncologist and palliative care physician at Duke University Hospital and Associate Professor of Christian Philosophy at Duke Divinity School. His talk is entitled, "On Beautiful Clinical Encounters: Resisting the Corporatization of American Medicine."
The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on October 4, 2019 with Daniel Stulac, PhD, Visiting Assistant Professor of Old Testament at Duke Divinity School. His talk is entitled, “Land and People Together: A Biblical Vision of Health."
The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on February 8, 2019 with Joshua C. Briscoe, MD, Medical Instructor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Medical Instructor in the Department of Medicine at Duke University Medical School. His talk is entitled, "A Faithful and Wise Compassion: When Potions, Pills, and Procedures Fail."
The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on January 18, 2019 with Farr Curlin, MD. Dr. Curlin is Josiah C. Trent Professor of Medical Humanities. A practicing palliative medicine physician, Farr works in both the School of Medicine’s Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine, and the Divinity School’s Initiative on Theology, Medicine, and Culture. His talk is entitled, "Just Do your Job: Technology, Bureaucracy, and the Eclipse of Conscience in Contemporary Medicine."
The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on August 30, 2019 with Warren Kinghorn, MD, ThD, the Esther Colliflower Associate Research Professor of Pastoral and Moral Theology at Duke Divinity School and Associate Professor of Psychiatry in Duke University Medical Center. His talk is entitled, "Mental Health is More than Symptom Reduction: Prescribing in the Context of Relationship, Agency, and Story."
The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on November 30, 2018 with Walter Lee, MD, MHS, Associate Professor of Surgery and Associate Professor in Radiation Oncology in the Duke University School of Medicine. His talk is entitled, "Code Blue: Fighting to Save the Moral Life of Medical Trainees."
The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on October 5, 2018 with Josh Williams, MD, assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine/ Denver Health Medical Center. His talk is entitled, "Minister to their Vaccination: Historical and Empirical Studies on Clergy Attitudes toward Vaccination."
The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on October 5, 2018 with Stuart Knechtle, MD, the Mary and Deryl Hart Professor of Surgery in the School of Medicine and executive director of Duke Transplant Center. Dr. Knechtle specializes in liver surgery and transplantation for adults and children. His talk is entitled, “Life from Death: Reflections on Organ Transplantation.”
The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on November 2, 2018 with Dr. Rebecca Todd-Peters, Professor of Religious Studies at Elon University. Her talk is entitled, "Trust Women: A Progressive Christian Argument for Reproductive Justice."
The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on September 21, 2018 with Elaine Howard Ecklund, PhD, is the Herbert S. Autrey Chair in Social Sciences, Professor of Sociology, and director of The Religion and Public Life Program at Rice University. Her seminar is entitled, "Science and Religion Converging on the Body."
Warren Kinghorn, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Pastoral and Moral Theology at Duke Divinity School was interviewed in March of 2017 during the Duke Divinity School Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative's conference entitled "Taking Our Meds Faithfully? Christian Engagements with Psychiatric Medication." Through the generous support of the McDonald Agape Foundation, “Taking Our Meds Faithfully: Christian Engagements with Psychiatric Medication” is the first of four annual conferences that will engage moral and theological approaches to prescription medication use. Learn more here - https://goo.gl/fYu5aB
Therese Lysaught, Professor, Institute of Pastoral Studies, Loyola University Chicago, was interviewed in March of 2017 during the Duke Divinity School Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative's conference entitled "Taking Our Meds Faithfully? Christian Engagements with Psychiatric Medication." Through the generous support of the McDonald Agape Foundation, “Taking Our Meds Faithfully: Christian Engagements with Psychiatric Medication” is the first of four annual conferences that will engage moral and theological approaches to prescription medication use. Learn more here - https://goo.gl/fYu5aB
Susan Eastman, Associate Research Professor of New Testament at Duke Divinity School was interviewed in March of 2017 during the Duke Divinity School Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative's conference entitled "Taking Our Meds Faithfully? Christian Engagements with Psychiatric Medication." Through the generous support of the McDonald Agape Foundation, “Taking Our Meds Faithfully: Christian Engagements with Psychiatric Medication” is the first of four annual conferences that will engage moral and theological approaches to prescription medication use. Learn more here - https://goo.gl/fYu5aB
Ryan Lawrence, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center and New York – Presbyterian Hospital, was interviewed in March of 2017 during the Duke Divinity School Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative's conference entitled "Taking Our Meds Faithfully? Christian Engagements with Psychiatric Medication." Through the generous support of the McDonald Agape Foundation, “Taking Our Meds Faithfully: Christian Engagements with Psychiatric Medication” is the first of four annual conferences that will engage moral and theological approaches to prescription medication use. Learn more here - https://goo.gl/fYu5aB
John Swinton, Chair in Divinity and Religious Studies at University of Aberdeen was interviewed in March, 2017 during the Duke Divinity School Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative's conference entitled "Taking Our Meds Faithfully? Christian Engagements with Psychiatric Medication." Through the generous support of the McDonald Agape Foundation, “Taking Our Meds Faithfully: Christian Engagements with Psychiatric Medication” is the first of four annual conferences that will engage moral and theological approaches to prescription medication use. Learn more here - https://goo.gl/fYu5aB
Jeffrey Bishop, Professor of Philosophy and Tenet Chair in Health Care Ethics at Saint Louis University was interviewed in March of 2017 during the Duke Divinity School Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative's conference entitled "Taking Our Meds Faithfully? Christian Engagements with Psychiatric Medication." Through the generous support of the McDonald Agape Foundation, “Taking Our Meds Faithfully: Christian Engagements with Psychiatric Medication” is the first of four annual conferences that will engage moral and theological approaches to prescription medication use. Learn more here - https://goo.gl/fYu5aB
Beth Cantrell, Founder and Executive Minister at Our Brother Legion, was interviewed in March of 2017 during the Duke Divinity School Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative's conference entitled "Taking Our Meds Faithfully? Christian Engagements with Psychiatric Medication." Through the generous support of the McDonald Agape Foundation, “Taking Our Meds Faithfully: Christian Engagements with Psychiatric Medication” is the first of four annual conferences that will engage moral and theological approaches to prescription medication use. Learn more here - https://goo.gl/fYu5aB
Brandon Appelhans, founder and Executive Director of My Quiet Cave, was interviewed in March of 2017 during the Duke Divinity School Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative's conference entitled "Taking Our Meds Faithfully? Christian Engagements with Psychiatric Medication." Through the generous support of the McDonald Agape Foundation, “Taking Our Meds Faithfully: Christian Engagements with Psychiatric Medication” is the first of four annual conferences that will engage moral and theological approaches to prescription medication use. Learn more here - https://goo.gl/fYu5aB
The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on November 17, 2017 with Richard Payne, MD, Esther Colliflower Professor of Medicine and Divinity at Duke Divinity School.
The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on November 3, 2017 with Stanley Hauerwas, DD, PhD, Gilbert T. Rowe Professor Emeritus of Divinity and Law at Duke Divinity School.
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