Healthcare Fellowship Forum

“You Have Made Your People See Hard Things:” Beauty, Faith, and Mental Health

Please join us for a conversation with Dr. Brewer Eberly, family physician and McDonald Agape Fellow for the Theology, Medicine, & Cultural Initiative at Duke Divinity School. Dr. Eberly will be discussing the surprising connections between beauty, Christian faith, and mental health. This will not be another talk on art therapy or the medical humanities. Rather, we hope to raise deeper questions: what does beauty offer the clinician in an unprecedented season of anxiety, depression, and restlessness for many patients and healers? What difference might a Christian account of the beautiful make for the practice of medicine and the work of God’s people who “have seen and heard things?” (Psalm 60:3).

This event is open to all UNC students and practitioners in health-related fields. It is co-sponsored by the Theology, Medicine, & Cultural Initiative at Duke Divinity School (TMC) and the Triangle Christian Medical and Dental Association (CMDA).

About the Healthcare Fellowship Forum

The North Carolina Study Center is partnering with Triangle Christian Medical and Dental Associations and the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School to host a series of informal gatherings for Christians in health-related fields at UNC. Through mini-lectures, panels, and table conversations, these gatherings provide opportunities to learn and think with colleagues about how to live out vocations to health care with clarity, wisdom, and courage.