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Adam Hamilton is a United Methodist pastor and author who founded the Church of the Resurrection near Kansas City and won the 2026 Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Kansas.
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Democrat Adam Hamilton faces Kansas Senate race backlash over a 2020 white privilege sermon as Republican Roger Marshall brands him too woke for Kansas.
Can a Dem flip the Kansas Senate seat for the first time in nearly a century?
MarshallThe Senate Leadership Fund, the top campaign arm for Senate Republicans, planned to spend $14 million in Kansas, where Republican Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall was tied with Hamilton in the polls as of Thursday.
Other photos taken throughout 2020 show campaign mailers and donation checks on Robertson’s desk in Marshall’s Senate office.
HUNT VALLEY, Md. (TNND): Adam Hamilton, the Kansas Democrat running for Senate, is rejecting the far-left label his opponent’s given him.
State | Joshua Arnold | Oct 14, 2026 | 1:56PM | Topeka, Kansas
Adam Hamilton, Democratic Senate candidate for Kansas, speaks during a campaign event in L
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Adam Joseph Hamilton was born on July 12, 1964, and grew up in Prairie Village, Kansas, in a family that seldom attended church; as a teenager he began going to a Pentecostal congregation after an evangelist came to his door, and he went on to lead its youth group.
He graduated from Overland Park's Blue Valley High School in 1982 and earned a Bachelor of Arts in pastoral ministry from Oral Roberts University in 1985.
His studies there led him toward John Wesley's theology and into the United Methodist Church, and he later completed a Master of Divinity at Southern Methodist University's Perkins School of Theology.
In 1990 Hamilton founded the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection, based in Leawood, Kansas, starting with a small group that met in a funeral home chapel.
The congregation grew into the largest in the United Methodist Church in the United States, drawing roughly 25,000 people a week on average across nine sites and through its online and broadcast worship.
Hamilton is the author of over 30 books on Christian belief, the interpretation of scripture and current issues, and his video lessons are used in Sunday school classes across American Protestant churches.
He delivered the sermon at the National Prayer Service held for the 2013 presidential inauguration, and in 2016 President Barack Obama appointed him to the President's Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.
Hamilton launched his Kansas Senate campaign in April 2026.
He first formed an exploratory committee as an independent, having been registered at different times as a Republican and as a Democrat, and was then urged to seek the Democratic nomination so that opposition to Republican incumbent Roger Marshall, who is seeking a second term, would stay united.
In the August 4, 2026 primary he took the Democratic nomination, receiving 34.9% of the vote in a field that included Christy Davis, former Kansas director of USDA Rural Development, and Army veteran Noah Taylor.
He calls himself a centrist, and his campaign has emphasized the cost of living, health care and political division.
