Author. Ethicist. Pastor.

A speaker who cuts through the noise.

Rev. Dr. Sam Kim brings scholarly insight and a pastor’s heart to questions of faith, doubt, and today’s most consequential moral challenges.

Dr. Sam D. Kim speaking at the WEA Future Gospel Forum in Istanbul, Turkey

Where faith
meets the world
Academic Centers, 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.
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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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The Gospel in the Public Square

Public LifeWatch
  • Life’s Biggest Questions
  • Emerging Technologies (AI & Gene Editing)
  • Apologetics / Evangelism
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Gospel & Public Health

Emotive LifeRead
  • The Loneliness Epidemic
  • Depression & Suicidal Ideation
  • Curating Community
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Gospel Renewal

The Inner LifeRead
  • Professional Burnout
  • Rhythms of Soul Care
  • The Power of Mentoring

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 professional burnout among ecumenical clergy and in academic medicine.

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, made history as the first spiritual title to receive the grand prize in Publishers Weekly’s BookLife Prize.

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