Professor Ha's work will investigate ways to connect the Provost’s Initiative on Pluralism, Free Inquiry, and Belonging with other Duke programs that aim to reinvigorate thought and debate about “the big questions."

From biblical scholarship and theology to poetry, ethics, preaching, and public life, Duke Divinity School faculty continue to publish work that speaks to the church and the world.

Authored by TMC alumni Hima Bindu Thota, Clark Howell, and John Dortch, alongside TMC affiliate faculty member Ryan Antiel, this paper reimagines surgical practice through the lens of the Sabbath, offering a theological counter to medicine’s fixation on efficiency. It invites clinicians to recover a sense of sacred time and moral formation that restores presence, dignity, and the practice of healing.