Sam D. Kim was born in Seoul and raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He was trained as a bioethicist at Harvard Medical School and holds research fellowships at Yale Divinity School, Yale School of Medicine, and The Hastings Center.
His book A Holy Haunting won the inaugural Grand Prize in Spirituality from Publishers Weekly’s BookLife Prize, was selected by Ron Charles as a Washington Post Book Club pick, and received a GET IT verdict from Kirkus Reviews.
He is co-founder and senior pastor of 180 Church in Manhattan’s Union Square neighborhood — one of the most theologically serious congregations in New York. He was invited to the White House during the Obama Administration to advise on DACA and Dreamers policy.
He is a fellow of the John Templeton Foundation and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and speaks regularly at universities, medical schools, faith communities, and national conferences.