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Brazos Press @brazospress.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

🌟Cover Reveal!🌟 Can Religion Save Democracy?: How More Faith--Not Less--Can Heal Our Public Life by @matthewkaemingk.bsky.social and @shadihamid.bsky.social Get 40% off your preorder: bakerbookhouse.com/products/978...

This graphic shows the book cover of Can Religion Save Democracy? How More Faith, Not Less, Can Heal Our Public Life by Matthew Kaemingk and Shadi Hamid. Underneath the cover are the words, Coming October 2026. The cover features the title in bold, black words with the US Capitol building painted in blue.

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Matthew Kaemingk @matthewkaemingk.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

#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.

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Brazos Press @brazospress.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

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/...

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Matthew Kaemingk @matthewkaemingk.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

I made a coffee table out of barn beams.

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Matthew Kaemingk @matthewkaemingk.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

"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...

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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.

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Matthew Kaemingk @matthewkaemingk.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

“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.

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Matthew Kaemingk @matthewkaemingk.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

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

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Matthew Kaemingk @matthewkaemingk.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Religion that is hierarchical and institutional can also be egalitarian. Tocqueville on the Catholic church.

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Matthew Kaemingk @matthewkaemingk.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

💥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

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Matthew Kaemingk @matthewkaemingk.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

“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

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Matthew Kaemingk @matthewkaemingk.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

“Christianity must be used polemically today against the worldly in the name of a better worldliness…” Bonhoeffer

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Matthew Kaemingk @matthewkaemingk.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

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

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Matthew Kaemingk @matthewkaemingk.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

“Losing kindness, they turn to justness.” - Lao-tzu

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Matthew Kaemingk @matthewkaemingk.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

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.

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Matthew Kaemingk @matthewkaemingk.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

"We must learn to grow like a tree, not like a fire.” Wendell Berry

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Matthew Kaemingk @matthewkaemingk.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Wendell Berry on the downfall of big farmers (and pastors) "the quality of attention decreases as acreage increases"

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