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In the Spotlight

Register for Practice and Presence 2019!

Join us for our upcoming Practice and Presence Conference, September 13-15 at Duke Divinity School, entitled “Fear Not: Faithful Health Care in an Anxious Age.”  The conference features plenary speakers Abraham Nussbaum, Victoria Sweet, Lydia Dugdale, Brian Volck, and others. This year, we are proud to offer continuing education credit. We hope many health care
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New TMC Video | “God, Give Me Eyes to See”: The Fellowship in Theology, Medicine, and Culture

Watch this profile of TMC Fellowship alumnus Dr. Benjamin Frush, a medicine-pediatrics resident at Vanderbilt, whose experience as a Theology, Medicine, and Culture Fellow at Duke Divinity School gave him eyes to see Christ in his patients.  
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Reimagining Health Collaborative 2019 Cohort: Food, Health, and the Body | Application Deadline August 2

The Reimagining Health Collaborative (RHC) is accepting applications for its 2019 cohort: Food, Health, and the Body.  In 2019-2020, the RHC invites churches and Christian communities to explore the deep interconnections of food, health, and Christian faith. Food connects us to our bodies, to each other, and to the earth. A whole-person, whole-community approach to
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Theology, Medicine & Culture Events

TMC Seminar: “Mental Health Is More Than Symptom Reduction: Prescribing in the Context of Relationship, Agency, and Story,” Dr. Warren Kinghorn, MD, ThD

Friday, August 30, 2019, 12PM | Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine
Dr. Kinghorn is 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.   Dr. Kinghorn received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School and his M.T.S. and Th.D. from Duke Divinity School. In addition to teaching at Duke Divinity School, Warren practices psychiatry at

Practice and Presence 2019

Friday, September 13, 2019, 8AM | Duke Divinity School
Join TMC for Practice and Presence 2019: “Fear Not: Faithful Health Care in an Anxious Age.” Ample evidence indicates that physicians and other health care practitioners are as frustrated with American healthcare as ever before, and Christian practitioners are no exception. Many struggle to find ways of practicing that answer to their calling as healers,

TMC Seminar: “The Art of Dying: A Meditation on Bodily Finitude,” Lydia Dugdale, MD

Friday, September 13, 2019, 12PM | Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine
Lydia Dugdale, MD, MAR (ethics) is Associate Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. She has recently been tasked with building and directing a center for clinical medical ethics within the Department of Internal Medicine. A practicing internist, Dugdale’s scholarship focuses on end-of-life issues, medical ethics, and the doctor-patient relationship.

TMC Seminar: A Conversation with Dr. Raymond Barfield

Friday, October 18, 2019, 12PM | Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine
Ray Barfield is Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Christian Philosophy. Dr. Barfield is a pediatric oncologist and palliative care physician. He joined the faculties of Duke University Medical School and Duke Divinity School in 2008. He is a founding director of the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative and the Pediatric Quality of Life and Palliative