MATT (MOJO) MORGINSKY


Nashville, TN



MATT (MOJO) MORGINSKY


Former front of Supertones- current apologist

From the start of his musical career fronting Christian aka/rock pioneers, the Supertones, Matt Morginsky wanted to encourage listeners to investigate why they believe what they believe. After 14 years with the band—not to mention 10 albums, five Dove Award nominations and 1500 concerts in dozens of countries worldwide—he’s putting down his guitar, but he’s keeping the microphone handy to tackle the subject of Christian apologetics with youth and young adults.

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All along Morginsky has packed his songwriting with a theological punch, introducing young fans to renowned Christian thinkers and authors and portraying a thoroughly faith-based worldview, and his desire to educate youth has paid off. As someone who has enthusiastically embraced the study of Christian theology ever since stumbling upon C.S. Lewis’ writings at the tender age of 18, Morginsky is well-equipped to spur young audiences on to deeper thinking about their faith. The jump from music to speaking is a natural one for him, combining his passion for youth and his appetite for learning.

Morginksy’s own faith journey began during his mid-teens when a friend asked him to play bass for a Catholic youth mass. Soon after, he found himself reading scripture and considering Christianity for the first time in his life. “I can’t pinpoint the moment, really, because I don’t fit the formula,” he recalls. “No one ever said, ‘You need to accept Christ,’ and I never went forward at an event—I just started believing.”

While still in high school, Morginsky founded the Supertones and served as a leader for his church’s junior high youth group. As he progressed in his faith, he realized that a simple list of behaviors to avoid wasn’t enough for him, and it certainly wasn’t all there was to Christianity. “I was really frustrated, because I wanted to know more about Christianity,” he says. “I wanted to know what our reasons are for believing these things. I wanted to know more about the Bible, more about Christian history. I was ready to be challenged.”

Morginsky is well aware that there are plenty of young Christians out there with the same kinds of questions that he had, and he’s prepared to offer them something that wasn’t readily available to him in his teens—the tools to engage their minds and to deal with criticisms leveled against their Christian faith. “Kids who grow up in Christian homes aren’t taught to address important questions like, “What is reality?” or “How do you know what you believe is true?,” explains Morginsky. “These things aren’t brought up when they’re in a safe environment, but they’re not going to get through college without hearing about it. When their professors or their roommates challenge them, they’ve got no answers. They feel like they either have to give up their Christianity or give up their rationality, but that’s a crisis that doesn’t need to happen, because Christianity has answers about those things.”

Morginsky brings the same straightforward clarity and dynamic accessibility to his speaking that he’s long made use of during Supertones’ shows. Pretension is nowhere to be found—what audiences will get is an average guy from a rock band, who happens to be profoundly committed to growing and sharing his faith. In his talks, whether he’s delivering a brief one-time message or an extended speaking series, Morginsky zeroes in on what he calls Worldview Apologetics.

“Everybody has a worldview, at the bottom of which is faith,” he says. “Even people who disdain faith have a faith commitment at the bottom of their worldview. Christianity is internally consistent. We don’t arbitrarily assume things, but every other worldview at some point breaks down.” Morginsky’s speaking career will definitely enable him to do things he couldn’t do while touring with the band, like having lengthier face-to-face conversations with young adults, engaging in question-and-answer time and communicating ideas that won’t easily fit into a three minute tune. “You can only do so much in a song,” he ads. “Only so many things rhyme with internal rationality.”