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.
Everything Happens is a research and storytelling center dedicated to helping people live faithfully and honestly in a world shaped by uncertainty, suffering, and hope. Through interdisciplinary research, public scholarship, storytelling, and community-based initiatives, Everything Happens (led by Dr. Kate Bowler) develops the moral imagination needed to face life as it actually is—not as we wish it were.
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.
The Forum is a ministry of Duke Divinity School funded by Lilly Endowment Inc. which provides leaders and communities across Christian traditions a place for connection, exploration and fresh perspectives about congregational life.
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.