Matthew Croasmun is Associate Research Scholar and director of the Life Worth Living program at the Yale Center for Faith & Culture at Yale Divinity School and lecturer of Humanities at Yale University. He is an ordained Vineyard pastor, having served as the founding pastor of the Elm City Vineyard Church, in New Haven, CT.

He received his B.A. in Music from Yale College, an M.A.R. in Bible from Yale Divinity School, and a Ph.D. in Religious Studies (New Testament) from Yale University. In 2015, he was awarded the Manfred Lautenschläger Award for Theological Promise. He is author of The Emergence of Sin: the Cosmic Tyrant in Romans (OUP, 2017), Let Me Ask You a Question: Conversations with Jesus (Upper Room, 2018), co-author with Miroslav Volf of For the Life of the World: Theology that Makes a Difference (Brazos, 2019) and Hunger for Home: Food and Meals in the Gospel of Luke (Baylor, 2022), and co-author with Miroslav Volf and Ryan McAnnally-Linz of Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most (2023).

An ordained Vineyard pastor, Matthew has preached in Vineyard, Covenant, Presbyterian, Methodist, Episcopal and non-denominational churches in the United States, Dominican Republic, Switzerland, Germany, and Ghana. Rooted in the Christian church, much of Matthew’s work, from the Life Worth Living program at YCFC to the faith initiative at Grace Farms, operates at the boundaries of religious and ideological identity, helping diverse communities ask the big questions of life across important and enduring lines of difference.