The Rev. Dr. Katie Givens Kime

Denomination: Presbyterian Church (USA) (PCUSA)
Organization: Odyssey Impact

Rev. Dr. Katie Givens Kime is a Presbyterian minister who serves as Director of Religion and Civic Engagement for Odyssey Impact, based in New York City.

Katie earned her M.Div. at Union Theological Seminary in New York. After ordination she served Presbyterian churches in New York and Atlanta before earning a Ph.D. in religion from Emory University. She was a member of the Post-Doctoral Teaching and Research Facility at the University of Bern in Switzerland in 2017 and 2018, then joined Odyssey Impact in early 2019.

A native of Kalamazoo, Michigan, Katie received a bachelor of arts with academic honors from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with a double major in communication science and rhetorical and religious studies.

Katie lives in Atlanta with her husband, composer Haddon Kime, and their daughter Abby.

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Katie Givens Kime: What Jesus' Great-Grandmother Teaches Us About Hope

Tuesday October 26, 2021
In her sermon, Katie Givens Kime says maybe we need, in times like ours, to listen to the Ruths in our lives, to our grandmothers in the faith. Listen to those who love us no matter what, who stick with us to the end, who say YES to hope and NO to oppression.

Katie Kime: Know It All?

Tuesday February 25, 2020
In her sermon for the 1st Sunday in Lent, Dr. Katie Givens Kime says the truth is that God is always trying to give us good things, an entire garden of good things, but so often our hands are too full to receive them. And if our hands are full, they are full of the things to which we are attached or even addicted

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Preaching during Crisis: Igniting Pastoral Imagination in the Face of Fatigue, Injustice and Collective Trauma

Wednesday June 24, 2020
Watch this critical conversation with preaching colleagues from across the U.S. whose wide-ranging experiences in responding to these unprecedented and compounding crises are inspiring healing, transformation and hope. A webinar presented June 17 by Day1 and Odyssey Impact.