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About Practice & Presence

Are you a Christian in health care who longs to connect your work with your Christian commitments? Do you believe that the church should matter for modern health care? One weekend each fall, nurses, physicians, therapists, chaplains, and other health care practitioners gather together with students and alumni of Duke Divinity School to: 

  • Tune our eyes and hearts to see how God is present in our work in healthcare 
  • Engage scripture, theology, and Christian history—open to how our imaginations and practices might be transformed 
  • Grow in friendship with each other in the context of shared meals, conversation, prayer, and worship 
  • Rest, reflect, and respond to God’s love for us and the world
Students watch lecture in Goodson Chapel

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For Two Days of Learning, Connection, and Worship

The Theology, Medicine, and Culture (TMC) Initiative at Duke Divinity School was established in 2015 to bring theological formation to those with vocations to health care, hoping that doing so would inspire lives and practices that joyfully display God’s healing ministry.

This year's Practice & Presence gathering marks ten years of learning and growing together. As we reflect on this milestone for TMC, we look back with gratitude and forward with hope, seeking the renewal of our vocations and bearing witness to the ways the church enacts Christ’s healing work in the world.

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