Contributors Sam Keyes

Sam Keyes

Sam Keyes serves as Professor of Theology at John Paul the Great Catholic University in Escondido, California.

He comes from a family of Baptists in central Mississippi, whose devotion to Bible reading and teaching formed him into a person for whom no existence is imaginable apart from the Church. He graduated with an English degree from the University of Richmond and moved to Budapest, Hungary, for two years to teach in a public bilingual school.

He came to the Anglican Communion by way of chaplaincies in the Diocese in Europe (Gibraltar), and was confirmed at an Episcopal parish in North Carolina, where he attended Duke Divinity School. After Duke he did an Anglican year at Nashotah House. In 2018 he received his Ph.D. in Theology from Boston College. He served as an ordained priest in the Anglican tradition from 2011-2019, working in parishes in Massachusetts, Alabama, and finally at Saint James School in Maryland. At Pentecost of 2019 he and his family were received into the Roman Catholic Church.

Sam lives with his wife, Gretchen, and their three children in Murrieta, CA

The Virtues of Horror

August 5, 2019

Books, Commentary, Roman Catholic Church

There is a deep mysticism at the heart of the Dark Tower books — the quest to find the heart of reality and the determination to see it for what it is despite all the hurt and pain along the way.

God Doesn’t Need Your Love

May 29, 2019

Commentary, The Episcopal Church

We need God. We long for God. And no, God does not feel the same way about us.

Tradition for Teens

May 15, 2019

Liturgy, The Episcopal Church

I wonder what personal attraction draws teenagers to traditional Catholic devotion?

Millennial Burnout and The Good Place

February 14, 2019

Commentary, Ethics, The Episcopal Church, TV

The problem is not that millennials don’t know how to work, it’s that work is all they know.

We Believe All Myths Except the One That Is True

December 10, 2018

Commentary, The Episcopal Church

We take great delight in teaching and promulgating every possible myth but the one that is true.

Your Servants Love Her Very Rubble

September 21, 2018

Commentary, Ecclesiology, The Episcopal Church

How can we love God, if don't love the Church he has made?

Getting Saved

July 25, 2018

Commentary, The Episcopal Church

Is our gospel really the good news of Jesus?

15 Ways to Be Bored in Church

March 7, 2018

Humor, The Episcopal Church

These tips will ensure your churchgoing remains boring. Remember: it's all about you.