Today we have Dr. David Gill!

Dr. Gill is a writer and teacher specializing in Christian ethics. He retired from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Boston MA where he served (2010-16) as Mockler-Phillips Professor of Workplace Theology & Business Ethics and Director of the Mockler Center for Faith & Ethics. Prior to that he served six years as Professor of Business Ethics on the MBA faculty of St. Mary’s College of California (2004-10), nine years as Carl I. Lindberg Professor of Applied Ethics at North Park University in Chicago (1992-2001), and fourteen years as founder, Professor of Christian Ethics, and Dean or President at New College Berkeley, an interdenominational graduate school of theology for lay men and women (1976-90). He is best known as a pioneer in the “faith at work” movement and as a scholar for his work on the thought of the French sociologist and ethicist Jacques Ellul. He is also the founding President of the International Jacques Ellul Society.

Today we welcome Pastor Michael Carlson. Michael is a close friend who has unique perspective and deep insight into both the fun and struggles of being adoptive parents. We also plunge the depths of his mind to hear how he thinks about the role of Pastor…how it’s different than therapist and how church is itself a unique place in the Kingdom.

Dr. Farr Curlin holds dual academic appointments to both Duke University and Duke Divinity School.

Dr. Curlin is a hospice and palliative care physician who joined Duke University in January 2014 where he holds joint appointments in the School of Medicine, including its Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine, and in Duke Divinity School, including its Initiative on Theology, Medicine and Culture. He works with Duke colleagues to foster scholarship, study, and training regarding the intersections of medicine, ethics, and religion.

After graduating from medical school, he completed internal medicine residency training and fellowships in both health services research and clinical ethics at the University of Chicago before joining its faculty in 2003. Dr. Curlin’s empirical research charts the influence of physicians’ moral traditions and commitments, both religious and secular, on physicians’ clinical practices. As an ethicist, he addresses questions regarding whether and in what ways physicians’ religious commitments ought to shape their clinical practices in a plural democracy.

Dr. Curlin and colleagues have authored numerous manuscripts published in medicine and bioethics literature, including a New England Journal of Medicine paper titled, “Religion, Conscience and Controversial Clinical Practices.” He is particularly concerned with the moral and spiritual dimensions of medical practice and the doctor-patient relationship, and with the moral and professional formation of physicians. His areas of expertise are medicine, medical ethics, doctor-patient relationship, religion and medicine, and conscience. At the University of Chicago, Dr. Curlin founded and was co-director of the Program on Medicine and Religion.