Norman Wirzba, Gilbert T. Rowe Distinguished Professor of Christian Theology and senior fellow at Duke's Kenan Institute for Ethics, talks about the interdisciplinary opportunities at Duke Divinity School, and how they can help Duke Divinity graduates be more effective in their work with communities.
"One of the things that Duke Divinity School is really trying to do is help ministers think about their work as happening in communities that they are called to help thrive," he says. "And a congregation can't do that by itself. So one of the real distinctives about being at a university like Duke is that our divinity students, they can go to the policy school, they can go to the environment school, they can go to the law school, and they can learn about these different facets of a community's well-being."
Whether you're working with community leaders on issues related to health care, policing, the legal system, social services, public policy, or the environment, an education at Duke Divinity School gives you a real advantage in terms of learning about these interdisciplinary aspects of community work, and gives you a better chance of affecting change.