He is the senior pastor of the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection, a mainline protestant church with multiple locations in the Greater Kansas City area.

Hamilton attended Oral Roberts University, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in pastoral ministry in 1985.

[2] His undergraduate studies and exploration of his personal faith led him to the theology of John Wesley and the United Methodist Church, and he went on to earn a Master of Divinity degree from Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University where he was awarded the B'nai B'rith Award in Social Ethics.

[3] In 2013, he preached at the National Prayer Service as part of the presidential inauguration festivities,[4] and was appointed by President Barack Obama to the President’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships in 2016.

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