The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative (TMC) welcomed Dr. Tonya Armstrong for this virtual seminar on September 22, 2023. Dr. Tonya Armstrong is an international speaker, health and wellness entrepreneur, psychology expert and consultant, author, and singer/songwriter. After seven years in academia and solo, part-time practice, Dr. Armstrong launched The Armstrong Center for Hope, a behavioral health practice centering psychological and spiritual wellness for clients all ages. Dr. Armstr...
Jun 26, 2025•48 min
The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative (TMC) welcomed Dr. Brewer Eberly for this virtual seminar on September 8, 2023. He is a third-generation family physician at Fischer Clinic in Raleigh, NC, and a McDonald Agape Fellow in the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School. He completed his family medicine residency and chief residency at AnMed Health in Anderson, SC. Dr. Eberly has been published widely, including JAMA, the New Atlantis, and Christianity Today, wi...
Jun 26, 2025•58 min
Dr. James Rusthoven is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Oncology at McMaster University, and Research Fellow in the Kirby Lang Center for Public Theology in Cambridge. He is known for his contributions to the field of medical oncology and bioethics. Dr. Rusthoven joined the Theology, Medicine, and Culture in Spring of 2023 for this virtual seminar, "Living Out an Intentional Theology of Faithful Presence in Medicine."
Jun 26, 2025•58 min
Jason Ashe, PhD, ThM, MDiv is a Community Health Psychologist & Research Scientist, whose work explores religion and racism as psychosocial determinants of health. He focuses specifically on cardiovascular disease and cerebrovascular disorder risk and health inequities among Black Americans. Dr. Ashe is a former Theology, Medicine, and Culture Fellow at Duke Divinity School, and joined us in Spring 2023 to offer this virtual seminar, "Racism Driver of Health Disparities, Outlier in Our Theol...
Jun 26, 2025•58 min
In Auden’s poem “The Art of Healing,” he writes that “every sickness is a musical problem and every cure a musical solution.” Jazz and health care are two things we normally don’t think about together, let alone in the context of mental health. This conversation was recorded at the 2024 Practice & Presence gathering between theological ethicist Patrick Smith and physician and writer Brewer Eberly. They explores jazz and medicine as moral practice. How does jazz draw out metaphors that help u...
Jun 20, 2025•1 hr 1 min
Dr. Emily Smith, Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine and Assistant Research Professor of Global Health at Duke University, explores the intersection of faith, science, and global health through the lens of the parable of the Good Samaritan. Dr. Smith reflects on her experience during the COVID-19 pandemic as the voice behind 'Friendly Neighbor Epidemiologist,' advocating for compassionate public health. Her presentation weaves data with a call to ethical action from a posture of solidarity...
Jun 12, 2025•56 min
The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative (TMC) live-streamed this seminar from the annual Practice & Presence gathering at Duke Divinity School on September 23rd, 2022. Brian Volck was interviewed by TMC Faculty member Dr. Martha Carlough for this conversation, entitled "The Art of Living as Creatures." Dr. Volck is a pediatrician and writer with an MD from Washington University in St. Louis and an MFA in creative nonfiction from Seattle Pacific University. He has provided pediatric ca...
Jun 05, 2025•1 hr 14 min
The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative (TMC) at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on October 21, 2022 with John Swinton, BD, PhD, RMN, RMND titled “Can a Pill Do What the Holy Spirit Could Not?: Psychiatric Medication, Personhood, and Living Faithfully with Mental Health Challenges.” Dr. Swinton is a Professor in Practical Theology and Pastoral Care at the School of Divinity, History, Philosophy & Art ...
Jul 30, 2023•56 min
The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative (TMC) at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on October 7, 2022 with Kristin Collier, MD titled "Reimagining a Theology of Medicine." Dr. Collier is an Associate Professor and Associate Residency Program Director of Internal Medicine at Michigan Medicine, and the Director of the Program on Health, Spirituality, and Religion at University of Michigan Medical School. TMC ...
Jul 30, 2023•59 min
The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative (TMC) at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on September 9, 2022 with Brett McCarty, ThD titled “Churches Promoting Recovery: Faith-Based Responses to Substance Use Issues.” Dr. McCarty is an Assistant Research Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke Divinity School; Associate Director of the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative; and Assistant Professor in Popula...
Jul 30, 2023•55 min
The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative (TMC) at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on April 1, 2022 with M. Therese Lysaught, PhD. Dr. Lysaught is theologian and bioethicist on faculty at the Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics & Healthcare Leadership in the Stritch School of Medicine. She gave a talk titled "God V. Mammon: Neuroscience, Economics, and the Biopolitics of Morality." TMC Seminars are a sem...
Apr 16, 2022•57 min
The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative (TMC) at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on March 4th, 2022 with Jennie Weiss Block, PhD, OP. Dr. Block is an author, theologian, and was the spiritual director of the late Paul Farmer. She gave a talk titled “What I Learned About Accompaniment from Paul Farmer.” TMC Seminars are a semi-monthly gathering of faculty, students, clinicians, and others interested in the...
Mar 23, 2022•59 min
The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative (TMC) at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on February 4, 2022, with Norbert Wilson, PhD, entitled: “Food Insecurity in the United States: A call to action." TMC Seminars are a semi-monthly gathering of faculty, students, clinicians, and others interested in the intersections of theology, medicine, and culture. For more information and recordings, visit tmc.divinity.d...
Mar 09, 2022•58 min
The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative (TMC) at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on February 4, 2022, with Norbert Wilson, PhD, entitled: “Food Insecurity in the United States: A call to action." TMC Seminars are a semi-monthly gathering of faculty, students, clinicians, and others interested in the intersections of theology, medicine, and culture. For more information and recordings, visit tmc.divinity.d...
Feb 21, 2022•56 min
The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative (TMC) at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on January 21st, 2022 with Norman Wirzba, PhD, Gilbert T. Rowe Distinguished Professor of Christian Theology and Senior Fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke. He gave a talk titled "“This Sacred Life: Linking Cosmology and Health." TMC Seminars are a semi-monthly gathering of faculty, students, clinicians, and othe...
Feb 08, 2022•57 min
The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative (TMC) at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on November 12th, 2021 with John Swinton, BD, PhD, RMN, RNMD, professor in practical theology and pastoral care as well as chair in divinity and religious studies at the University of Aberdeen. He gave a talk titled "Thinking about Theology and Mental Health: Bible, Spirit, and Church." TMC Seminars are a semi-monthly gatheri...
Nov 29, 2021•58 min
The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative (TMC) at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on November 5th, 2021 with Ellen Davis, PhD, Amos Ragan Kearns Distinguished Professor of Bible and Practical Theology and C. Kavin Rowe, PhD, George Washington Ivey Distinguished Professor of New Testament. They led a seminar entitled "Biblical Narratives of Healing." TMC Seminars are a semi-monthly gathering of faculty, stu...
Nov 17, 2021•57 min
Kathryn Butler, MD: "Shepherding Patients and Families Through End-Of-Life Care" by Duke Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative
Oct 08, 2021•57 min
The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative (TMC) at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on September 17th, 2021 with Brian Volck, MD, MFA, Instructor in Medicine and Theology at St. Mary’s Seminary and University. He gave a talk titled "Health, Wholeness, and Humanity: The Stewardship of Creation as if Matter Mattered."
Oct 05, 2021•54 min
The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative (TMC) at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on September 3rd, 2021 with Patrick Smith, PhD, Associate Research Professor of Theological Ethics and Bioethics at Duke Divinity School. He gave a talk titled "Pursuing Shalom in the Age of COVID-19: Some Theological Considerations."
Sep 22, 2021•57 min
The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on February 25, 2021 with Keisha Bentley-Edward, PhD, the Associate Director of Research for the Samuel Dubois Cook Center on Social Equity and Assistant Professor at Duke University's School of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine. Her talk is entitled, "The Intersection of Gender and Denomination on Cardiovascula...
Apr 15, 2021•56 min
The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on February 25, 2021 with Jeffrey Baker, MD, PhD, the Director of the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities, and History of Medicine, Director of Program in the History of Medicine, and Professor of Pediatrics and History at Duke. His talk is entitled, "COVID-19 and Vaccination Controversies: Historical and Contemporary Considerat...
Apr 13, 2021•27 min
The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on February 24, 2021 with C. Kavin Rowe, PhD, MDiv and Bradley Gregory, PhD. Dr. Rowe is the George Washington Ivey Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Associate Dean of the Faculty at Duke Divinity School. Dr. Gregory is the Associate Professor of Biblical Studies at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. ...
Apr 13, 2021•1 hr 3 min
The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on January 13th, 2021 with Carl Elliot, MD, PhD, and Stanley Hauerwas, PhD. Dr. Elliot is professor at the Center for Bioethics and Departments of Pediatrics and Philosophy at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Hauerwas is the Gilbert T. Rowe Professor Emeritus of Divinity and Law at Duke University. Their talk is entitled, "(Mal)for...
Feb 26, 2021•37 min
The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on January 27, 2021 with Susan Holman, PhD, MS, MTS, the John R. Eckrich Chair and Professor of Religion and the Healing Arts at Valparaiso University. Her talk is entitled, "How are (or are not) early Christian Hospitals useful to religious imaginaries today that seek to promote modern clinical and global health?"
Feb 24, 2021•39 min
The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on November 13th, 2020 with Sister Teresa Forcades i Vila, MD, PhD, physician, theologian, and Benedictine nun in the mountain monastery of Sant Benet de Montserrat in Catalonien, Spain. Her talk is entitled, "Health and Salvation: How are they related in the Gospels?"
Nov 18, 2020•1 hr 1 min
The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on October 30, 2020 with Sarah Jean Barton, OTR/L, ThD, Assistant Professor of Occupational Therapy at Duke School of Medicine and Theological Ethics at Duke Divinity School. Her talk is entitled, "Spirituality and Disability in Patient Care: Where We are Now and Hopes for the Future."
Nov 11, 2020•52 min
At 11:00 minutes, there is a break in the recording. At this point in the seminar, Bruce Rogers-Vaughn showed this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuBe93FMiJc The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on October 2, 2020 with Bruce Rogers-Vaugn, Associate Professor of the Practice of Pastoral Theology and Counseling at Vanderbilt Divinity School. His talk is entitled...
Nov 11, 2020•45 min
The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on October 16, 2020 with Laurie Zoloth, RN, PhD, the Margaret E. Burton Professor of Religion and Ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School and Senior Advisor to the Provost for Programs on Social Ethics. Her talk is entitled, "Duty and Justice in Jewish Bioethics: The Questions of Vaccines and Pandemics."
Nov 11, 2020•1 hr 9 min
The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on September 18, 2020 with Reverend Gloria White-Hammond, MD, the Swartz Resident Practitioner of Ministry Studies at Harvard Divinity School and co co-pastor of Bethel AME Church, Boston. Her talk is entitled, "African American Spirituality, Serious Illness, and the COVID-19 Crisis."
Oct 20, 2020•46 min
