Justin K. Coleman

Justin K. Coleman is the Senior Pastor of University United Methodist Church in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and a Consulting Faculty member at Duke Divinity School in Durham, North Carolina. A native of Houston and a member of the Texas Annual Conference, he is a graduate of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, and Duke Divinity School in Durham, North Carolina. Rev. Coleman has also served as the Chief Ministry Officer for the United Methodist Publishing House in Nashville, Tennessee, as Lead Pastor of the Gethsemane Campus of St. Luke’s United Methodist Church in Houston, Texas, and in other college ministry settings. His ministry at University UMC includes leading the church as it seeks to live into radical kinship by loving God, serving others, and building Christian community. Rev. Coleman is the proud father of three sons.


Rev. Coleman is the author of Home for Christmas: Tales of Hope and Second Chances, a contributor to I’m Black, I’m Christian, I’m Methodist, and is the Old Testament presenter on Disciple Fast Track: Becoming Disciples Through Bible Study, and author of the forthcoming book. Fire in the Soul: Wesley, Ignatius, & the Revival We Need.