Duke Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative
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.
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August 18, 2026 • 58 mins
This presentation explores two distinct—and often opposing—approaches within public health: Population Health Management (PHM) and Health Through Community (HTC). Dr. Karl Johnson, Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health Leadership and Practice at UNC Chapel Hill, will highlight key characteristics that differentiate these models and illustrate the contrast through practical examples. Drawing on the core ...
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What does beauty have to do with suffering? And what do both have to do with the practice of medicine? In this TMC seminar, theologian Dr. Natalie Carnes and family physician Dr. Brewer Eberly sit down for a rich conversation about beauty — one of the Christian names for God — and why beauty and suffering are so deeply intertwined in the Christian story. Together they explore what this togetherness means for how we love...
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August 18, 2026 • 58 mins
Providing care among the poor and marginalized has always required tenacity and perseverance. Failures, discouragement, and even despair are commonplace. In this seminar, Rick Donlon, MD and Susan Post, DMin, MBA explore the normal course of faithful and sacrificial Christian discipleship and the means of grace available for long-term faithfulness from their work with Christian Community Health Fellowship (CCHF), a national network...
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August 18, 2026 • 61 mins
The nursing profession been shaped by Christian nurses while also having an influence on nurses. This seminar with Anne Biro, RN, PhD, President of Nurses Christian Fellowship International (NCFI), provides a brief overview of major influences on the development of the nursing profession. Impacts on nursing by Christian nurses past and present will be highlighted, including a discussion of ways that have helped Christian nurses in ...
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An in-depth interview with Dr. Harold Koenig, a world-leading scholar on the intersection of faith and health. Dr. Koenig reflects on his distinguished career in medicine, psychiatry, and geriatric care, sharing insights from decades of research on the relationship between spirituality and well-being. He and interviewer Dr. Warren Kinghorn discuss how Koenig's Christian faith has shaped his professional vocation, from clinical prac...
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August 18, 2026 • 57 mins
Dr. Sunita Puri has seen firsthand how the spiritual dimensions of life and death shape how people think about what matters most—and what doesn't—as they face their mortality. Concepts of dignity, suffering, and mercy are largely absent from conversations with people who are seriously ill, yet they are the heartbeat of decisions about living and dying well. Drawing on her experiences as a palliative care physician and h...
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August 17, 2026 • 61 mins
This seminar, which originally aired on April 4, 2025, explores common epistemological frameworks underpinning global health initiatives in the Global South. These frameworks raise ethical concerns, as they often sustain research, education, and medical delivery that generate conflicts with local realities shaped by distinct worldviews. Drawing from liberation theology, which emphasizes the preferential option for the poor and the ...
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August 17, 2026 • 57 mins
"Faith-Based Safety Net Care and Advancing Health Equity" with Ngozi Ezike, MD by Duke Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative
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August 17, 2026 • 43 mins
In this TMC Seminar, live-streamed October 6, 2023 from TMC's annual conference Practice & Presence, Dr. Devah Stahl is interviewed by Dr. Warren Kinghorn, Co-Director of the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School. Devan Stahl is an Associate Professor of Bioethics and Religion at Baylor University and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Education, Innovation, and Technology at the Baylo...
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April 25, 2026 • 54 mins
On the night of December 1, 1950, a 24-year-old Army veteran named Maltheus Avery died following a car accident, after having been turned away from Duke Hospital because of his race. Physician and TMC alumnus, Dr. Jeff Baker, discusses the podcast he co-hosted about the incident, and how he was struck by the prominence of Christian themes that arose in the project. Listeners can access the podcast at unhealed.duke.edu as well as on...
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January 27, 2026 • 67 mins
In the profession of medicine and the current world where demands on our attention are many and constant. John Hardt, Vice Dean of Professional Formation and Associate Professor of Bioethics at Loyola University of Chicago, is the co-director of the Physician's Vocation Program. The program teaches on virtue, character, and calling in medicine, reflecting on religious themes in medicine through the practices of St. Ignatius. In thi...
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October 22, 2025 • 57 mins
"Many Are Called…-’ Medicine As Ministry to Poor and Marginalized Communities" with Daisey Dowell, MD by Duke Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative
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TMC Seminar Series Health Equity Is Not a Spectator Sport- A Radical Rerooting Using a Three Trees Analogy- by Duke Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative
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Dr. Aasim Padela discusses the foundations of Islamic bioethical discourse based on the various moral sciences of the Islamic tradition. He touches upon aspects of the discourse in orienting the audience to its siloed nature. The talk will conclude with a discussion on how an Islamic bioethics may intersect with academic bioethics as a field. Dr. Padela is Professor & Vice Chair of Research, Emergency Medicine and Professor of ...
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Susan Eastman, M.Div., Ph.D., is Associate Research Professor Emerita of New Testament, Duke Divinity School. She presented "Christian Flourishing and Reimagining Healthcare: An End to Magical Thinking" for the TMC Virtual Seminar Series on January 24, 2025. "Magical thinking" is "if-then" thinking, which plays an important role in medical research and care, but falters in the face of mystery and the infinite diversity of human bei...
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On September 27, 2024, Dr. Warren Kinghorn, MD, ThD was in conversation with Jessica Coblentz, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies and Theology at Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana. Dr. Coblentz's research and teaching focus on Catholic systematic theology, feminist theologies, and mental health in theological perspective. Her book is "Dust in the Blood: A Theology of Life with Depress...
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Dr. Annie Friedrich joined TMC for a virtual seminar on Friday, October 11th, 2024. Dr. Friedrich is an Assistant Professor of Bioethics and Medical Humanities in the Institute for Health & Equity at the Medical College of Wisconsin. She received her PhD in Health Care Ethics from Saint Louis University with a focus on clinical ethics, pediatric ethics, and empirical research methods. She is a certified clinical ethics consulta...
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July 27, 2025 • 57 mins
A problem plagues modern healthcare: machines are setting the standard of care, and human clinicians are struggling to keep up. Artificial intelligence will only make this worse. The technical mindset fragments patient care and draws us further from shalom even as pursue surrogate markers that are meant to restore health. How can we, as Christian clinicians, respond wisely and well to this problem? One response is found in the stor...
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Dr. Matthew Rubach, Associate Professor in the School of Medicine & Associate Research Professor in the Global Health Institute at Duke, offered a TMC seminar in March, 2024.
Dr. Rubach is a specialist in clinical infectious diseases with medical specialty training in Pediatrics, Internal Medicine and Medical Microbiology. Since November 2015, he has been based full-time as a clinical researcher and clinician in Moshi, Tanzani...
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The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative (TMC) at Duke Divinity School hosted this TMC seminar, "Whose Body is This: A Theological Anthropology for the Care of the Sick and Dying" on March 1, 2024. The Reverend Dr. Esther E. Acolatse is a professor of pastoral theology and world Christianity at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. She has wealth of experience in teaching and academic scholarship at the intersection of ps...
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