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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, in which he is currently a transitional deacon.

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

Preaching without Restrictions

Sam Keyes
January 18, 2021
Commentary, Ministry, Roman Catholic Church
By Sam Keyes Coming back to the pulpit in a different church after a long hiatus can be a surreal experience. I’m sure I’m not the only one in this boat —I serve in a “diocese” after all where the vast major... Read More...

Being Distracted by the Right Things

Sam Keyes
November 27, 2020
Commentary, Liturgy, Music, Roman Catholic Church
By Sam Keyes Three times now in an introductory course on sacraments and liturgy, I’ve asked students to reflect on a playlist of Church music that I assembled for them. To do such a thing at all challenges ... Read More...

Five Tips on Voting Like a Nonbeliever

Sam Keyes
October 27, 2020
Commentary, Ethics, Roman Catholic Church
By Sam Keyes Many Christians these days seem to spend a lot of energy figuring out how to properly separate or combine their faith from their politics. Which presidential candidate is more messianic? Which c... Read More...

Recovering the Magic in Onward

Sam Keyes
May 14, 2020
Commentary, Movies, Reviews & Culture, Roman Catholic Church
By Sam Keyes Pixar’s new Onward, made available early on Disney Plus thanks to the pandemic, is a wonderful movie. Of course I was going to say that. It is the gentle apotheosis of so much fantasy nerd cultu... Read More...

The host-life and the virus

Sam Keyes
March 23, 2020
Liturgy, Ministry, Roman Catholic Church
Like much of the world right now, the Church faces a kind of humiliation in the face of the current crisis.

Being a Potato Bug

Sam Keyes
March 10, 2020
Commentary, Contributors, Reviews & Culture, Roman Catholic Church, TV
Watching Mister Rogers with my children is a constant reminder of how impoverished our culture can be when it comes to childhood.

Climate change, anxiety, and hope

Sam Keyes
January 16, 2020
Analysis, Commentary, Contributors, Ethics, Roman Catholic Church
While I am hardly a climate change “denier,” I do sit uneasily with the evangelical fervor with which many people I know and respect talk of environmental disaster.

Learning to Be God’s Child

Sam Keyes
October 21, 2019
Commentary, Contributors, Roman Catholic Church
Unlike me, God is patient. God is good. God doesn’t need us to pay attention to him but he keeps working at us anyway.
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