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Matthijs Kronemeijer (he/him/his) is a scholar, writer, and Christian community worker. He is normally based in Toronto, Canada, but will be living in the Netherlands with his wife and daughter during the first half of 2025. In 2020 he stepped away from the workforce to focus on parenting, a deep engagement with Christian sources, and orientation on Canadian society and politics. His columns about the Christian life can be found here.
Matthijs’s interests include biblical philosophy, politics, peace and reconciliation, interfaith relations, and the arts. He understands himself to be neurodiverse, which among other things has expressed itself in a gift for languages and an atypical social awareness. Matthijs has academic degrees at the MA level in Catholic theology, Arabic studies, Jewish studies, and political science. His participation in the Humanity in Action program (Amsterdam 2000) was a life-changing experience that he has tried his best to put to good use.
Between 2014 and 2020 Matthijs and his family lived in Lansing, Michigan, where he worked as a professional tutor for Lansing Community College and developed his skills as an interpreter of American politics. In his home country, the Netherlands, he worked for the Roman Catholic Military Chaplaincy in various staff roles. He is involved in various volunteer projects at the intersection of spirituality and politics. Lastly, he is an avid amateur singer who believes that the contemporary Canadian choral music scene has a lot to offer.
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