Bruce Rogers-Vaughn is an ordained minister, pastoral psychotherapist, and teacher. He received a Ph.D. in Religion and Personality from Vanderbilt University in 1991. Previously a pastor and a chaplain, he has maintained a clinical practice in pastoral psychotherapy for over 30 years. He is co-founder of a non-profit agency, The Pastoral Center for Healing, where […]
Rev. Gloria E. White-Hammond, M.D. is Co-Pastor of Bethel AME Church, Boston, MA, www.bethelame.org and the Swartz Resident Practitioner in Ministry Studies at Harvard Divinity School (HDS). Dr. White-Hammond’s “ministry of healing” spans four decades and 2 continents. She served as a pediatrician at the South End Community Health Center from 1981-2008. In 2002, White-Hammond co-founded My […]
“It’s not the kind of thing you can hang in an office,” says Dr. Brewer Eberly, of his work of art, Sir Luke Fildes, the (Modern) Doctor, featured recently in The AMA Journal of Ethics. His piece modernizes Sir Luke Fildes’ 1891 painting, The Doctor, a “classic portrayal of physicianship” depicting “a physician’s attentive posture […]
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 […]
An article in Stories@DukeDivinity features TMC Fellows Brendan Johnson, Kirsten Simmons, Jennifer Tu, and Emmy Yang, whose “recent contributions have been recognized for their theological acumen, thoughtful leadership, and interdisciplinary perspective.” Read the article. […]
The Theology, Medicine and Culture (TMC) Initiative has been hosting a series of conversations about Christian responses to COVID-19 with faculty and alumni online via Zoom. Watch them here: On the Frontlines: Caring as Christians during COVID-19 with TMC alum Dr. Matt Frederick and TMC spiritual formation director Dr. Martha Carlough Triage, Resource, (Re)Allocation with […]
TMC faculty member Patrick Smith will be participating in a panel hosted by the American Journal of Bioethics entitled, “Black Bioethics: Racism, Police Brutality, and What it Means for Black Health,” on July 14, 11am PST/2pm EST. More information and register. […]
TMC Fellow, Kirsten Simmons, in an article for Medium, reflects on the experience of a black medical student in an era of police brutality and injustice. “I woke up this morning ready to start the day. There’s a 74 degree sunny forecast for the beautiful Hope Valley neighborhood of Durham, NC. I predict I might […]
TMC alumnus Dr. Brewer Eberly recently contributed an article as part of a series on the nihilism of modern medicine for the Theopolis Institute. In it, he argues that while the diagnosis of modern medicine as nihilistic is correct in some ways, his experiences as a family medicine resident reveal the beautiful in-breaking of the […]
Congratulations to TMC Fellow Brendan Johnson, winner of the Kenan Moral Purpose Award, for his essay, “Moral Medicine.” The essay describes how his studies in Social Medicine and Liberation Theology led him to question the inherent value structure of professional medicine, realizing, “the status of the poor becomes the ethical standard by which we measure […]