Author. Ethicist. Pastor.

A speaker for thoughtful faith in a skeptical age.

Rev. Dr. Sam D. Kim brings the rigor of an academic and the heart of a pastor to conversations about faith, doubt, and other moral dilemmas plaguing our world today.

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Where faith
meets the world
Universities, hospitals, conferences, and pulpits — from Cambridge to Union Square.

Publishers Weekly endorsement: Eschews platitudes in favor of a multilayered conversation about faith. What sets Kim's work apart is its depth, intelligence, and flair.

Give your audience language for faith, doubt, and public life.

Sam helps rooms move past shallow answers and into clear, hopeful, intellectually honest conversations.

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UNIVERSITIES & ACADEMIC

Faith, reason, and the examined life. Harvard, Yale, Urbana, and campuses across North America.

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FAITH COMMUNITIES

Preaching, retreats, and conferences. Doubt, scripture, and the hard questions congregations avoid.

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POLICY & ADVOCACY

Expanding one’s moral imagination while empowering leaders in making more judicious decisions regarding their own values and goals, particularly when these values collide.

From the Publisher

A Holy Haunting

A Holy Haunting invites readers to face doubt honestly and rediscover the sacred wonder threaded through ordinary life, now recognized by Publishers Weekly's BookLife Prize.

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Meet Dr. Sam D. Kim

From Cambridge to Union Square, joining God to restore the beauty in all things.

Rev. Dr. Sam D. Kim is a Harvard-trained ethicist, author, and the co-founder of 180 Church in downtown Manhattan. He was appointed as a research fellow in Global Health and Social Medicine at the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School and was part of Harvard Catalyst, where he researched inequities tied to health, immigration, and social policy.

Dr. Kim also holds the Lifelong Learning Fellowship at Yale Divinity School and Yale School of Medicine, a John Templeton Foundation and AAAS-supported initiative designed to bridge faith and science. His work has been cited by Harvard, Publishers Weekly, and the Washington Post. His debut book, A Holy Haunting, was the inaugural grand prize winner in the Spirituality category for Publishers Weekly's BookLife Prize.

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