Practice and Presence is a two-day conference for health care practitioners of faith to listen, learn and discuss together new ways of working in health care. The theme of this year's gathering is: "From Machines to Creatures: Healing Our Vision of Health." Modern medicine is characterized by treating the body as machine. This approach has generated remarkable technological capacities to fix broken bodies, but in doing so, Wendell Berry argues, it has advanced a false vision of creaturely health and come often to obstruct the healing that humans need. What is a truer vision of creaturely health? What is the healing that humans need, and how can Christian health care practitioners cooperate in that healing? Participants will explore these questions together during the conference.