"Spirituality is an essential component of a balanced, healthy life. Only in the industrialized Western world have we made a distinction between the sacred and the secular. Spirituality needs to be restored to its necessary place in a balanced approach to working with the whole, human person."
David Berg serves as a Palliative Care Chaplain at Fairview-University Medical Center and a faculty member at the Center for Spirituality and Healing, where he teaches the Graduate Minor course, "Culture, Faith Traditions and Health."
David earned his Master's of Arts degree in 1974 from the University of Minnesota and completed his Master's of Divinity degree at the Luther Theological Seminary in 1980.
His special interests include cultural spiritual assessment, cross-cultural health care, end-of-life and behavioral medicine.