The Rev. Dr. Matthew Johnson is a third-generation Unitarian Universalist, a parent of two teenagers, a big nerd, and a lover our faith. He has served in leadership roles in the Pacific Northwest District Youth Adult Committee, in the Unitarian Universalist Minister’s Association, and on both the Presidential and Moderator Search Committees for the UUA. He served for five years as the minister at High Plains UU Church, Colorado Springs, and for the last 17 years as the Senior Minister at The Unitarian Universalist Church, Rockford, IL. A graduate of Whitman College, Meadville Lombard Theological School, and Iliff School of Theology, he’s also the author of Newborn Bards: A Theology of Preaching For Unitarian Universalists. He’s been to all 50 states, and walked pilgrimages in Israel, Transylvania, New England, and 560 miles of the Camino de Santiago in Spain.

He is a Congregational Life Consultant for the MidAmerica Region of the UUA, working primarily with pastoral size congregations across the Midwest.