Practice & Presence: A Gathering for Christians in Health Care

September 13-14, 2024
Friday, September 13, 2024 | 2pm - Saturday, September 14, 2024 | 7:30pm
Registration for Practice & Presence is open through September 5, 2024. Special pricing is available for students, trainees, and clergy. 
Practice & Presence 2023 plenary session with John Swinton and Farr Curlin in Goodson Chapel.
In-person For Alumni For Clergy For Medical Professionals Credit Offered

About Practice & Presence

Are you a Christian in health care who longs to experience your healing work as a calling? Do you believe that the church should matter for modern health care? Do you long to connect your work with your Christian commitments?

One weekend each fall, nurses, physicians, therapists, students, chaplains, and other health care practitioners gather at Duke Divinity School to:

  • Tune their eyes and hearts to see how God is present in their work in healthcare
  • Engage scripture, theology, and Christian history—open to how their imaginations and their practices might be transformed
  • Grow in friendship with each other in the context of shared meals, conversation, prayer, and worship
  • Rest, reflect, and respond to God’s love for them and the world.

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I love attending Practice & Presence -- it is the one non-negotiable conference in my CME schedule each year. There is no otherspace I inhabit that so beautifully merges the dual vocational streams of medicine and Christian faith that are sovital to my self-understanding and ministry of healthcare.

Plenary Speakers

Patrick T. Smith, PhD
Associate Research Professor of Theological Ethics and Bioethics; Senior Fellow, Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University
Brewer Eberly, MD, MACS
Family Medicine Physician; McDonald Agape Fellow in the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School
Matt Maher
Musician, Songwriter, Nine-time-GRAMMY® nominee and three-time-GMA Dove Award® winner
Bryana Russell, MATS
Director of Engagement at Sanctuary Mental Health Ministries in Vancouver, Canada
Louisa Olushoga, MD
Psychiatrist at Lawndale Christian Health Center in Chicago, Illinois
Neftali Serrano, PsyD
CEO, Collaborative Family Healthcare Association
Luke Smith, MD
Psychiatrist and Executive Director at El Futuro in Durham, N.C.
David Finnegan-Hosey, MDiv
Minister of Bon Air Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) & Author
Warren Kinghorn, MD, ThD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center; Esther Colliflower Associate Professor of the Practice of Pastoral and Moral Theology, Duke Divinity School; Co-Director, Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative
Brett McCarty, ThD
Assistant Research Professor of Theological Ethics; Associate Director of the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative; Assistant Professor in Population Health Sciences

Register for Practice & Presence

Special pricing is available for students, trainees, and clergy. Registration closes on September 5, 2024.

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