Newly published by Palmetto Publishing, The God Who Sees argues that contempt, not disagreement, is fracturing American families, churches, and public life, and offers a scriptural path back.
CHARLESTON, S.C., Oct. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Palmetto Publishing has released The God Who Sees, a new work of Christian nonfiction by Matthew C. Gee. The book examines the widening distance between people who once shared a table, and makes the case that the underlying problem is not political disagreement but a failure to recognize one another as human.
Gee writes from a career spent in finance, operations, and healthcare administration. He serves as Vice Chair for Administration in the Department of Psychiatry at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and as Director of Operations within the Atrium Wake Forest Baptist Behavioral Health Service Line. The book moves between that professional vantage point and the ordinary settings where division is felt most sharply, including the dinner table, the family holiday, and the social media feed where faces become categories, arguments, and obstacles.
The central claim is drawn from Scripture. Tracing a line from Hagar in the wilderness to the encounters of Jesus with people at the margins, Gee argues that every human face carries an image that no failure, no tribe, and no election can revoke. He is direct about what that costs. Readers who love their faith but flinch at the contempt spoken in its name, and readers who have left faith behind and still want an account of why a human life matters, are both addressed. Civility, Gee contends, is not enough.
The God Who Sees is aimed at reflective adults between roughly 28 and 55 who read authors such as Timothy Keller, Brene Brown, and Scott Sauls, and who are looking for a faith-rooted response to polarization that honors both conviction and human dignity. It arrives amid sustained public debate over political estrangement within families and congregations, and sits on the Christian living and spiritual growth shelf alongside titles addressing division, dignity, and civic life. The book closes with practical approaches to recovering genuine seeing at home and across entrenched divides.
The God Who Sees is available for purchase online at Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com. For more information about the author, visit www.matthewcgee.com.
About the Author: Matthew C. Gee is a healthcare leader, author, and advocate for people too often overlooked by the systems meant to serve them. He serves as Vice Chair for Administration in the Department of Psychiatry at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and as Director of Operations within the Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Behavioral Health Service Line. His career has spanned finance, operations, and healthcare administration, with behavioral health representing a more recent chapter in a much broader professional journey. It is that journey, moving through boardrooms, hospital intake forms, and two a.m. emergency rooms, that shapes his conviction: the people we stop seeing are the people we stop serving.
In The God Who Sees, Gee turns that conviction into a book for two readers at once: the Christian troubled by contempt spoken in the language of faith, and the skeptic who has watched religion behave badly in public. Drawing on Scripture, behavioral health, marriage, and family life, he traces how unseeing, not mere disagreement, has become our deepest cultural crisis. The book is not a plea for centrism or vague kindness. It is an invitation to hold firm convictions and genuine regard together, to name what is wrong without declaring a person worthless. He is also the author of Roots Before Branches.
When he is not writing or working, Matthew treasures time with his family in the Piedmont Triad region of North Carolina. Together they love to camp, travel, and enjoy slow, lazy days at home, never losing sight of the many gifts God has given them. He is also an avid football fan.
Follow Matthew’s journey at matthewcgee.com.
About the Book:
Title: The God Who Sees
Author: Matthew C. Gee
Publisher: Palmetto Publishing
Publication date: September 18, 2026
ISBN-13: 9798318855061, 9798318855054, 9798318855078
Available for interviews: Author, Matthew C. Gee
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