Rev. Dr. Matthew Kaemingk is an award-winning author, speaker, and Christian ethicist working at the intersection of faith, politics, and culture. He serves as Professor of Public Theology at Theological University Utrecht and Senior Fellow at the Center for Public Justice. He also co-directs the Templeton Pluralism Fellowship.
Kaemingk is the cohost of a groundbreaking podcast on faith, politics, and public life with Dr. Shadi Hamid entitled Zealots at the Gate. Together they’ve also founded the Templeton Pluralism Fellows, an innovative research fellowship which gathers Muslim and Christian scholars to explore and discuss how their faiths might navigate deep religious and political differences.
Kaemingk is also the founding director of Worship for Workers. This initiative is an international collaborative effort to create new songs, prayers, and blessings for congregations who wish to engage to working lives of their people. Worship for Workers draws together artists and songwriters, pastors and professionals from around the world to create these resources.
Matthew is an ordained minister in the Christian Reformed Church. He and his wife Heather live in St Louis with their three sons Calvin, Kees, and Caedmon. Together the five of them serve a Springer Spaniel named Moses.
Matthew's past writings and speaking engagements can be located in his curriculum vitae.
