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Matthew Kaemingk
@matthewkaemingk.bsky.social
Author, Professor | Theology, Ethics, Politics |
Books: Work & Worship, Muslim Immigration, Reformed Public Theology http://bit.ly/3AVvjCe

Podcast: Zealots at the Gate
#CalvinistsAgainstTrump

8 years ago Donald Trump instituted his Muslim immigration ban.

Amidst the Seattle airport protest a single conservative Calvinist locked arms with a sea of liberal hippies. It is still unclear how many of them accepted Abraham Kuyper into their hearts that night.
January 25, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Some personal news.
We are excited to share the announcement of our publishing partnership with @matthewkaemingk.bsky.social and @shadihamid.bsky.social! New book coming fall 2026! Read more here: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
January 6, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Reposted by Matthew Kaemingk
We are excited to share the announcement of our publishing partnership with @matthewkaemingk.bsky.social and @shadihamid.bsky.social! New book coming fall 2026! Read more here: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
January 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Here we go!
We are excited to share the announcement of our publishing partnership with @matthewkaemingk.bsky.social and @shadihamid.bsky.social! New book coming fall 2026! Read more here: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
January 3, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I made a coffee table out of barn beams.
January 2, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Reposted by Matthew Kaemingk
bold
December 20, 2024 at 5:17 PM
"when it becomes hard to cry seriously or to laugh passionately, then we really are on the downhill slope."

God bless Pope Francis.

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/o...
Opinion | Pope Francis: There Is Faith in Humor
The best thing to do in front of a mirror is to laugh at ourselves. It is good for us.
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2024 at 4:54 PM
“each city is an expression of… the lifestyles of its residents… plus generations of the predecessors… it also shapes that lifestyle, making some activities attractive and convenient, and rendering others almost impossible… Cities are in fact moral agents..."

- Wolterstorff.
December 6, 2024 at 2:41 PM
After God.

Amidst a nation's spiritual despair and moral confusion, citizens look for a strong man--a master.

Tocqueville.
December 4, 2024 at 5:13 PM
Religion that is hierarchical and institutional can also be egalitarian.

Tocqueville on the Catholic church.
December 4, 2024 at 1:47 PM
💥We're publishing a book💥

"Leading Worship for Workers" is going to be **packed full** of creative ideas and practical resources for designing Sunday worship that has a deep and lasting impact on Monday work.

You can follow our progress at worshipforworkers.com
December 3, 2024 at 2:58 PM
“To write a story is an act of Naming; in reading about a protagonist I can grow along with, I myself am more named.”

- Madeleine L'Engle
December 2, 2024 at 6:37 PM
“Christianity must be used polemically today against the worldly in the name of a better worldliness…”

Bonhoeffer
November 25, 2024 at 9:54 PM
Seminary student.

While you must learn from a variety of theological traditions, never allow yourself to be a theological tourist. Know the difference.

“Somewhere is better than anywhere”
--Flannery O’Connor
November 23, 2024 at 2:14 PM
“Losing kindness, they turn to justness.”
- Lao-tzu
November 23, 2024 at 1:41 AM
Without strange communities of grace, humility, and sacrifice "the world has no way to know or feel the oddness of its dependence on power for survival” - Stanley Hauerwas.
November 21, 2024 at 2:47 PM
"We must learn to grow like a tree, not like a fire.”

Wendell Berry
November 20, 2024 at 4:57 PM
Wendell Berry on the downfall of big farmers
(and pastors)

"the quality of attention decreases as acreage increases"
November 20, 2024 at 4:48 PM