The Rev. Dr. Katie Givens Kime
Denomination: Presbyterian Church (USA) (PCUSA)
Organization: Alliance for Christian Media
President and Executive Producer, Alliance for Christian Media, and Host of "Day1"
Rev. Dr. Katie Givens Kime leads the Alliance for Christian Media and serves as the host of "Day1," bringing extensive experience in faith-based media, ministry, and public engagement. She joined ACM in 2022, initially as a grant writer, then as director of a four-year project funded by the Lilly Endowment’s Compelling Preaching Initiative, and later became Interim Executive Director in 2023.
Before her tenure at ACM, Katie was the Director of Religion and Civic Engagement at Odyssey Impact from 2018 to 2022. In this role, she launched and secured funding for the international Odyssey Fellows Program, equipping faith leaders with new media skills.
Katie holds a Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. from Emory University. She has served as a postdoctoral researcher and instructor at the University of Bern in Switzerland and was the Associate Pastor for Mission, Adult Education, and Young Adults at Trinity Presbyterian Church in Atlanta, Georgia, for six years. Her earlier ministry work includes roles at Marble Collegiate Church and Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City.
Katie is married to composer Haddon Kime, and they have a daughter named Abby.
Day1 Weekly Programs by The Rev. Dr. Katie Givens Kime
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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.