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This program has been the most personally and professionally enriching experience of my life… I’m more aware of offering up my practice as worship to God – both my medical practice and my practice of daily life… The ability to do something in an online format has been the only thing that’s allowed me to study [at Duke University].
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In the Spotlight

“Medicine Engages Faith Anew”-TMC Featured in The Living Church Magazine

An August feature article in The Living Church Magazine details TMC’s history and ongoing work to reunite health care and faith: “In 2017, Emmy Yang was a second-year medical student when she did a Google search for various iterations of “medicine and Christianity.” She had chosen medicine as a career because of her interest in [...]

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TMC Alumni Interview: Danielle Ellis, MD, MTS

Theology, Medicine, and Culture (TMC) Fellowship alumna Danielle Ellis, MD, MTS is a surgical resident known for praying with patients, singing in the halls, and wearing gold hoops with her uniform. She is also the fifth Black woman in general surgery training at her institution since it began in 1811. Below is an edited transcript [...]

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“Medicine: A Moral Enterprise”: The Healthy Doctor Podcast Interviews Dr. Warren Kinghorn

In an interview with The Healthy Doctor, a podcast hosted by the Christian Medical and Dental Associations, TMC Faculty member Dr. Warren Kinghorn speaks about discovering the need in medical education to move beyond a narrow focus on a few topics in bioethics, toward a deep integration of medicine with theology. “Medical education is all [...]

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Theology, Medicine & Culture Events

TMC Seminar (Online): “Shepherding Patients and Families Through End-of-Life Dilemmas” with Kathryn Butler, MD

Friday, October 1, 2021, 12PM | Online (Zoom)

Kathryn Butler (MD, Columbia University) trained in surgery and critical care at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, where she then joined the faculty. She left clinical practice in 2016 to homeschool her children, and now writes regularly for desiringGod.org and the Gospel Coalition on topics intersecting faith, medicine, and shepherding kids in the [...]

TMC Seminar (Online): “No Cure for Being Human” with Kate Bowler, PhD

Friday, October 22, 2021, 12PM | Online (Zoom)

The world loves us when we are good, better, best, but what about when we get sick, lose someone we love, or life hasn’t turned out like we thought it should? Duke Professor Kate Bowler offers a richer understanding of hope in the face of uncertainty, despair, and suffering as we begin to understand that [...]

TMC Seminar (Online): “Biblical Narratives of Healing” with Ellen Davis, PhD and C. Kavin Rowe, PhD

Friday, November 5, 2021, 12PM | Online (Zoom)

Ellen F. Davis is Amos Ragan Kearns Distinguished Professor of Bible and Practical Theology at Duke Divinity School. The author of eleven books and many articles, her research interests focus on how biblical interpretation bears on the life of faith communities and their response to urgent public issues, particularly the ecological crisis and interfaith relations. [...]

TMC Seminar (Online): “Thinking about Theology and Mental Health: Bible, Spirit, and Church” with John Swinton, PhD, RMN, RN

Friday, November 12, 2021, 12PM | Online (Zoom)

John Swinton is Professor in Practical Theology and Pastoral Care and Chair in Divinity and Religious Studies at the University of Aberdeen. For more than a decade John worked as a registered mental health nurse. He also worked for a number of years as a hospital and community mental health Chaplain alongside of people with [...]