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Video: TMC Launches Mental Health Track for Certificate in Theology and Health Care
TMC Launches Mental Health Track for Certificate in Theology and Health Care
Duke Divinity School offers a new track for the Certificate in Theology and Health Care. Learn about the newest track available to students with a vocation in health care.
Video: "A Common Vision for Life": The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Fellowship at Duke Divinity School
"A Common Vision for Life": The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Fellowship at Duke Divinity School
Theology, Medicine, and Culture (TMC) Fellowship alumna, Emmy Yang, shares her experience of discovering the resources of the Christian faith for her medical practice, and belonging to a community of like-minded colleagues and friends during her time as a TMC Fellow.
Video: Strengthen your Vocation: Flexible Certificate in Theology and Health Care at Duke Divinity School
Strengthen your Vocation: Flexible Certificate in Theology and Health Care at Duke Divinity School
Karen Frush, MD, flexible Certificate in Theology and Health Care student, shares about her experience of discovering theological resources and a community of like-minded colleagues to nourish her vocation during her time at Duke Divinity School.
Video: "God, Give Me Eyes to See"
"God, Give Me Eyes to See"
Watch this profile of TMC Fellowship alumnus Dr. Benjamin Frush, a medicine-pediatrics resident at Vanderbilt, whose experience as a Theology, Medicine, and Culture Fellow at Duke Divinity School gave him eyes to see Christ in his patients.

Recent Podcasts

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Podcast: A New Vision of Human Flourishing - A Christian Approach to Mental Health with Warren Kinghorn
A New Vision of Human Flourishing - A Christian Approach to Mental Health with Warren Kinghorn
The Best of You Podcast with Dr. Alison Cook
In this episode, Kinghorn discusses his new book, "Wayfaring: A Christian Approach to Mental Health Care," and offers a Christian vision of flourishing.
Celebrating and Defending the Freedom to Care
CMDA Matters
Dr. Farr Curlin gives a keynote address to celebrate and affirm the value of conscience freedoms in healthcare at a special event CMDA hosted in January 2023 at the Museum of the Bible.
Trauma, Ministry, and Healing
The Living Church Podcast
Warren Kinghorn is interviewed on The Living Church Podcast.

More Videos

Watch videos from past events.

"Touching Death: Christian Perspectives on an Anatomy Lab"

Farr Curlin, MD, Co-Director of the TMC Initiative and Ross Wagner, PhD, Professor of New Testament held a conversation in partnership with the Triangle Christian and Medical Associations (TCMDA) on the medical formation that takes place in the anatomy lab.

Inaugural Catena Lecture in Medicine, Faith, and Service

Gratitude in Action: One Doctor, One Hospital, One Million Patients”

Tom Catena, the only MD serving over 750,000 patients in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan, spoke at Duke Divinity School in October 2019.

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Recordings from Practice and Presence 2018

Duke Divinity Professor Kate Bowler, author of the bestselling Everything Happens for a Reason, and Other Lies I’ve Loved, speaks about her struggle to understand the personal and spiritual dimensions of the American belief that all tragedies are tests of character after she was diagnosed with Stage IV cancer at age 35.

Clips from the above conversation:

More Podcasts

Listen to more podcasts featuring our faculty.

Dr. Farr Curlin: “Celebrating and Defending the Freedom to Care” CMDA Matters Podcast. February 9, 2023

Dr. Warren Kinghorn: “Trauma, Ministry, and Healing.” The Living Church Podcast. September 23, 2021

Dr. Farr Curlin: “The Way of Medicine.” CMDA Matters Podcast. September 16, 2021.

Dr. Warren Kinghorn: “Medicine, a Moral Enterprise.” The Healthy Doctor Podcast. May 18, 2021. 

Dr. Farr Curlin: The Profiles and Profundity Podcast. April 30, 2020.

Dr. Patrick Smith: “Advancing Social Justice, Health Equity and Community.” Callahan Lecture for the Hastings Center, February 2021

Dr. Sarah Jean Barton. DIVcast: Duke Divinity Admissions Podcast.

Dr. Farr Curlin: “Contending Conscientiously for Good Medicine.” CMDA Matters

Dr. Warren Kinghorn: Health is Membership: 25 Years Later. June 11, 2020.

Dr. Brett McCarty: “Faith and Medicine.” The Faith and Work Podcast. March 12, 2020.

Dr. Patrick Smith and Dr. Farr Curlin: “End of Life Disparities: The African American Community.” Ethics Lab.

Dr. Stanley Hauerwas and Dr. Farr Curlin: “Why are Americans so Afraid of Death.” North Carolina Study Center.

Dr. Farr Curlin: “Making Sense of Death with Dignity.” The Thomistic Institute. Novemeber 14, 2019. 

COVID-19 Recordings

Should Christians take the COVID-19 vaccine? 
Christians & the Vaccine is a project of Redeeming Babel, whose mission is to provide “biblical thinking in a confusing world.” In this video series, Curtis Chang address the most common spiritual questions Christians have regarding the vaccine.

COVID-19 and Vaccination Controversies: Historical and Contemporary Considerations
This virtual seminar features Jeff Baker, MD, PhD, Professor of Pediatrics and History and Director of the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke University.

Five Ways To Promote Mental Health During the Pandemic 
Professor Warren Kinghorn, MD talks with Rev. Matthew Heyd of Church of the Heavenly Rest in NYC as part of their Faith and Science series.

Families, Relationships and Trauma during COVID-19 
Professor Warren Kinghorn, MD talks with TMC alumni Dr. Jennifer Lawson and Tara Corbett, MSW, MTS, about the effects of COVID-19 on families and children.

On the Frontlines: Caring as Christians during COVID-19
Drs. Matt Frederick and Martha Carlough discuss their pandemic experiences in March 2020 and share reflections on their faith.

Triage, Resource, (Re)Allocation and Christian Ethics
Professors Luke Bretheron and Patrick Smith discuss ethical considerations on resource allocation during the pandemic.

What Says the Great Physician? Moral Reflection, Medical Ethics, and Cultural Narratives Amid COVID-19.
This webinar features Professors Farr Curlin and Patrick Smith.

How do we find peace in this anxious moment? God, Mental Health, and COVID-19
This webinar hosted by The Veritas Forum, features psychiatrists Dr. Warren Kinghorn and Dr. Nii Addi, in conversation with Dr. Michelle Kirtley about mental health during the pandemic.

Christian Ethics During COVID-19 
Duke Divinity faculty Luke Bretherton, Brett McCarty, and Patrick Smith discuss ethics during a pandemic in this 15-minute video.

Health is Membership: 25 Years Later
A conversation with Duke University professor and psychiatrist Warren Kinghorn about wholeness and mental illness, loneliness, and seeing patients as “inhabitants of stories” rather than “bearers of symptoms.”