Smith is associate research professor of theological ethics and bioethics at Duke Divinity. He is also the director of the bioethics program for the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities, and History of Medicine and associate professor in population health sciences, Department of Health Sciences, Duke University Medical School. 

The Office of Black Church Studies invites you to the 2026 Sankofa Alumni Preaching Series held every Tuesday in the month of February. No registration is required for this event. All are welcome.

You are invited for community worship followed by a lunch conversation in the AMCR led by The Reverend Jimmie Hawkins, director of the Office of Public Witness of the Presbyterian Church (USA).