James L. Travis
Clinical Professor of Pastoral Care, Duke Divinity School
B.A. Mississippi College
B.D. Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Th.M.
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Ph.D. Emory University
James L. Travis III, Ph.D., is an Emeritus Professor, Duke Divinity School and a CPE Supervisor retired after 42 years of directing pastoral care and education programs in hospitals in Georgia, Mississippi, and at Duke University Medical Center. An ordained Baptist minister, and educated at Mississippi College, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and Emory University, Rev. Travis has specialized in clergy education, marriage and family counseling, clinical ethics, and the church's ministry with the elderly. In his "retirement," he continues to teach at Duke Divinity School and serve as Regional Director of the Mid-Atlantic Region of the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education, Inc.
His main fields of interest are preaching and worship, training lay persons in pastoral care, clinical pastoral education, marriage and family counseling, religious beliefs and bioethics, and social scientific studies of religious leadership. He has published on liturgical worship in a state mental hospital, sociology and mental health, and ethics in military chaplaincy. Travis has also conducted workshops for churches and ministers on topics such as psychosocial issues in cancer care and ministry to the dying and the bereaved.Travis retired with the rank of Colonel after serving thirty years in the Army National Guard, for the last five years as the North Carolina State Area Command Chaplain.
