Robert Hill

Robert Lee Hill is a nonfiction writer, poet, and community consultant for non-profit organizations focusing on social justice issues, particularly the increase of community engagement regarding quality education for all students, empowering citizens through voter registration, and quality health care for all.

Previously he served for more than 30 years at the Community Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Kansas City, Missouri, before moving into semi-retirement and being named Minister Emeritus in 2015.

Before his time in Kansas City, he served for four and a half years as Special Projects Director and Co-Director of Project Return, Inc., a non-profit agency working with ex-prisoners and their families in Nashville, Tennessee. Much prior to that, after his first year in college, he was drafted as a Conscientious Objector and spent two transformative years as a Youth and Family Worker at All Peoples Christian Church in South Central Los Angeles, where he would eventually be ordained.

He holds a B.A. degree from Texas Christian University, an M.Div. degree from Vanderbilt University Divinity School, and a D.D. degree from Christian Theological Seminary.

Since 1993, he has been the co-host of the renowned Sunday morning radio call-in show, “Religion on the Line,” on KCMO-Talk Radio 710 AM/103.7 FM.

He has written or edited ten books, including "All You Need Is More Love: and 101 More Musings, Essays, and Sundry Pieces," "Life’s Too Short for Anything But Love," "The Color of Sabbath," and a volume of poems, Hard to Tell.