Rev. Dr. Matthew Kaemingk is a Christian ethicist and public theologian. He serves as the Richard John Mouw Associate Professor of Faith and Public Life at Fuller Theological Seminary. He also directs the Mouw Institute of Faith and Public Life.
Kaemingk is an award-winning author and public speaker serving universities, think tanks, and organizations around the world. His research and public speaking focus on a variety of issues including: political ethics, marketplace theology, Muslim-Christian relations, and Reformed public theology. He is the author and editor of several books including Christian Hospitality and Muslim Immigration (2018), Work and Worship(with Cory Willson, 2020), and Reformed Public Theology (2021). In 2018 Kaemingk’s book Christian Hospitality and Muslim Immigration was named one of the best books of year by Christianity Today. He was honored with the “Emerging Public Intellectual of the Year” award in 2019.
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.
Kaemingk holds a doctoral degree in Systematic Theology from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and Christian Ethics from Fuller Theological Seminary. In 2011, serving as a Fulbright Scholar in the Netherlands, Matthew researched the European conflict over Muslim immigration and developed Christian ethical response to the issue.
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.
