What is the status of the Great Commission? What key global trends will shape the Great Commission in the future? Drawing from experience with both research data and organizational leadership, Niermann provides key insights to missions strategy.
What does it mean to be a Christian Creative in our current age? How does the Christian faith integrate with creativity? As a creative design professor and theologian, Niermann brings these disparate worlds together with clarity and specificity.
Is beauty a missions category? How does aesthetics cultivate the plausibility of Christ? As a design researcher, architect, and missiologist, Niermann explores these questions through scholarly research and consulting practice.
Dr. Matthew Niermann serves as Professor of Architecture and Associate Dean of the College of Architecture, Visual Arts & Design at California Baptist University. His work is dedicated to cultivating the plausibility of Christ by advancing the role of aesthetics.
Niermann serves as a director of the Lausanne Movement and editor of the State of the Great Commission Report prepared for the 4th Global Congress in Seoul, Korea in 2024.
In addition, Niermann provides leadership at the intersection of arts and missions with his role as Director of the Center for Creativity and Christian Missions, and Fellowship of Faithful Creatives. He is the author of The Humble Creative: Moral Vice and the Pursuit of Flourishing Creativity.
Niermann holds a Ph.D. in Architectural Design from the University of Michigan, M.A. Apologetics from BIOLA, M.A. Theology and Th.M. of Missiology from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.