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Brewer Eberly

Brewer Eberly is a third-generation family physician at the Fischer Clinic in Raleigh, NC and a McDonald Agape Fellow with the Theology, Medicine, & Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School.

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Brewer Eberly

Brewer Eberly is a third-generation family physician at the Fischer Clinic in Raleigh, NC and a McDonald Agape Fellow with the Theology, Medicine, & Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School.

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Unsouling the Patient: Notre Dame's Lessons for Medicine

Doctors face constant difficulties in caring for their patients. But it helps if you recognize you're dealing with someone who has a soul.

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Heads in the Heavens (or in Hell)

Our contemporary sickness of seeking does not deliver what it promises, instead leaving us lost, distraught, and alone.

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Three Challenges for Talking About Health - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Sandro Galea. Well: What We Need to Talk About When We Talk About Health. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 274pp, $28.95. One of my favorite ways to orient new medical students on the clinical team is to riff on […]

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Closest to the Sun - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Surely Michael Ward’s mind boiled and brightened in 2003 when he discovered that each of the seven books in C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia echo one of the seven spheres of the medieval solar system. The Lion, the […]

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A Conversation with Lydia Dugdale, MD: "The Lost Art of Dying" - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

How are we supposed to die? As a resident physician and fellow of Duke’s Theology, Medicine, & Culture Initiative, I’m convinced that this question will only become more pressing for Christians. Medicine is among the most powerful forces shaping how […]

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Pam Against Posturing | Mere Orthodoxy

Let me preface this by claiming that beauty forms the moral imagination. Aesthetics shape our ethics, in ways both problematic and promising. How does this relate to Michael Scott? Because few of my coworkers have been transformed by encounters with […]

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Medical (and Theological) Reasoning in a Pandemic | Mere Orthodoxy

The great challenge for doctors and nurses during a pandemic is not finding easy answers, but being the kind of people able to provide dignified care.

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Reforming Virtue Ethics | Mere Orthodoxy

Reformed Christians should have no difficulty with learning from and using concepts traditionally associated with virtue ethics.

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Movie Review: A Quiet Place - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

By Brewer Eberly It’s difficult to be silent about A Quiet Place—Paramount’s recent creature-feature directed by and starring John Krasinski (yes, Jim Halpert from The Office) and his wife, Emily Blunt (Sicario, Edge of Tomorrow, The Devil Wears Prada). A […]

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The Good, True, and Beautiful and the Oscars | Mere Orthodoxy

The problem with the Oscars is not that they value beauty over truth, but that their understanding of beauty is wrong.

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Book Review: Life's Work: A Moral Argument for Choice | Mere Orthodoxy

Brewer Eberly reviews "Christian abortionist's" Willie Parker's new memoir and finds it badly wanting as a work of theological reasoning.