The Center for Reconciliation focuses its work in forming leaders to open spaces where the vision, language, and practices of transformation and reconciliation can be nurtured. The CFR offers theological and practical skills training in conflict transformation and the theology of reconciliation to expand the imagination of Christian leaders for a more reconciled society.
A partnership between the Duke Clergy Health Initiative and the Duke Religion and Social Change Lab, funded by The Duke Endowment, conducts research on trends affecting faith leaders from seminary through retirement and works closely with Duke Divinity School and the two Annual Conferences of the North Carolina UMC to translate our research findings into policies, programs, and practices that improve ministerial well-being.
Through research, teaching, and arts programming, we promote and support the vibrant interplay between Christian theology and the arts by encouraging transformative leadership and enriching theological discussion in the church, academy, and society.
Fons Vitae seeks to deepen the Catholic intellectual presence and its cross-disciplinary engagement in the Duke University community and to serve as a Catholic think-tank at the service of all people of goodwill in our region and beyond.
We believe in the difference congregations make in communities. Our offerings empower Christian leaders and institutions to faithfully serve the church and the world.
Believing that congregational worship and prayer are vital to children’s growth in faith, our research group of scholars, children’s ministry experts, and students is studying connections between worship and faith nurture.
The TMC Initiative seeks the renewal of health care by bringing in-depth theological formation to the church’s health care practitioners.
The Thriving Rural Communities Initiative works to foster thriving rural North Carolina communities by cultivating faithful rural Christian leadership and fruitful rural United Methodist congregations.
The mission of the Traditioned Innovation Project is to catalyze a hopeful vision and embodiment of the future for Christian institutions.
Wesleyan and Methodist Initiatives & Programs include the Office of Wesleyan Engagement, Wesleyan Formation Initiatives, and the Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition.