A pastor shares the spiritual unlearning and re-learning he experienced while accompanying his young son through cancer.

An internist at a safety-net clinic offers insights from one of the world’s oldest stories to suffering patients and physicians alike – and emphasizes the importance of understanding a patient’s idioms of distress.

A Stanford physician and his oncologist explore the nuances of hope and the value of spiritual practice in the context of a Stage IV lung cancer diagnosis. 

A third-generation family physician and fellow at Duke Divinity school’s Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative shares a first-hand experience with facing the difficult question – What does it mean to willingly receive the suffering of someone which you cannot fix?

Harvard’s humanist chaplain provides a non-religious framework for meaning making and illustrates how technology has become a religion of its own.

A hospitalist, palliative care physician, and professor at Duke Divinity School advocates for recentering medicine on a fundamental question: “What is Good?”

A Critical and Palliative Care physician shares how she came to embrace a more human approach to medicine — treat patients as you’d want your own loved ones to be treated.