SPIRITUALITY AND MEDICINE
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A gerontologist and New York Times best-selling author plots a path toward more joyful aging — one rich with renewal, connection, and purpose.
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?
A world expert in social ecology and well-being explains why novel experiences that bring both positive and negative emotions are a key ingredient to a fulfilling life.
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.
A hospice chaplain and author discusses how she helps patients navigate through the “spiritual work of dying”—and shares lessons learned on suffering, pride, redemption, regret, and hope.
A writer and literary critic shares what we can all learn about purposeful rest and reflection from the tradition of the Sabbath.
A leading ICU physician and writer shares his fight to restore humanity in the ICU by “finding the person in the patient, using touch first and technology second.”
An ICU physician, writer, theologian, and religious historian shares his unusual path to medicine and how his spirituality helps him connect with patients of all backgrounds.