Duke Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative

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...

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 i...

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 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; Associa...

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...

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 Semi...

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 intersectio...

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 intersectio...

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 a...

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...

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 enti...

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 Consideration...

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 Intern...

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 t...

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 As...

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 13th, 2021 with Carl Elliot, MD, PhD, and Stanley Hauerwas, PhD. Dr. Elliot is professor at the Center for Bioethics and Departments of Pediatrics and Philosophy at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Hauerwas is the Gilbert T. R...

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 27, 2021 with Susan Holman, PhD, MS, MTS, the John R. Eckrich Chair and Professor of Religion and the Healing Arts at Valparaiso University. Her talk is entitled, "How are (or are not) early Christian Hospitals useful to relig...

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 13th, 2020 with Sister Teresa Forcades i Vila, MD, PhD, physician, theologian, and Benedictine nun in the mountain monastery of Sant Benet de Montserrat in Catalonien, Spain. Her talk is entitled, "Health and Salvation: How a...

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 30, 2020 with Sarah Jean Barton, OTR/L, ThD, Assistant Professor of Occupational Therapy at Duke School of Medicine and Theological Ethics at Duke Divinity School. Her talk is entitled, "Spirituality and Disability in Patient...

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 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 2, 2020 with Bruce Rogers-Vaugn, Associate Professor of the...

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 16, 2020 with Laurie Zoloth, RN, PhD, the Margaret E. Burton Professor of Religion and Ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School and Senior Advisor to the Provost for Programs on Social Ethics. Her talk is entitled,...

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 18, 2020 with Reverend Gloria White-Hammond, MD, the Swartz Resident Practitioner of Ministry Studies at Harvard Divinity School and co co-pastor of Bethel AME Church, Boston. Her talk is entitled, "African American Spiritua...

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 4, 2020 with John Swinton, RMN, RN, PhD, professor in Practical Theology and Pastoral Care and Chair in Divinity and Religious Studies at the University of Aberdeen. His talk is entitled, "The Spiritual Lives of Christians w...