Kenji Kuramitsu
HE/HIM | WRITER, THERAPIST, EVOLVING FAITH’S DIRECTOR OF SPIRITUAL FORMATION & CARE
In addition to co-leading Evolving Faith’s spiritual formation and care team with Osheta Moore, Kenji Kuramitsu teaches at McCormick Theological Seminary (from which he received his M.Div.). He is a fourth-generation Chicagoan, writer, therapist, fan of good liturgy, longtime partner to fellow social worker Brianna, eager gardener, and passionate consumer of fermented foods.
Kenji earned an MSW at the University of Chicago and completed postgraduate training in health care chaplaincy. He enjoys providing spiritual care, group, and individual psychotherapy to diverse populations, drawing from study of community narratives and social movements.
His theological interests emerge from Japanese American mass incarceration histories; in other words, he engages the ghosts of the past and explore how human beings might restore right relationships with the land, God, and one another.
His writing has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and featured in Sojourners, Slant’d, Inheritance, and Asian American Writers’ Workshop. He is also the author of A Booklet of Uncommon Prayer: Collects for the #BlackLivesMatter Movement and Beyond.
Brianna and Kenji are actively involved at St. Paul and the Redeemer, their home church in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood.