Adam Hamilton
Co-Founder and Senior Pastor, United Methodist Church of the Resurrection
Adam Hamilton is founding pastor of the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas, which he launched in 1990 with his wife and two children and whose congregation has grown to over 20,000 adults and children. Hamilton has written over 21 books, including When Christians Get It Wrong; Seeing Gray in a World of Black and White; Making Sense of the Bible;and his latest, Unafraid: Living with Courage and Hope in Uncertain Times. Honors include the Martin Luther King Jr. Legacy Award, one of the “Religion and Ethics Newsweekly” TV program’s “ten people to watch in America’s spiritual landscape,” and United Methodist Reporter’s 2012 United Methodist Person of the Year.
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