Contributors Sam Keyes

Sam Keyes

Fr. Sam Keyes serves as chaplain at Saint James School in Hagerstown, Maryland, and recently completed a PhD at Boston College.

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. Being an Anglo-Catholic, he made connections in the Diocese of Fort Worth, through which he soon entered the discernment process. He is now a priest of the Diocese of Alabama.

After Duke he did an Anglican year at Nashotah House. He was ordained to the diaconate in the summer of 2010, ordained to the priesthood in 2011, and is now engaged in doctoral studies in theology at Boston College. His current academic interests center on the development of medieval theology in the 12th and 13th centuries.

Fr. Keyes lives with his wife, Gretchen, and their two children in Hagerstown.

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.

Taste the goodness of the sacrament

December 8, 2017

The conclusion of Practical Allegory: Keeping the ‘et’ in the ‘res et sacramentum’

Practical allegory

December 7, 2017

This paper is about liturgy. But it is also about the failure of liturgy. It is about the failure of liturgy to make us good.

Nothing is really Caesar’s

November 22, 2017

Commentary, Exegesis

For Jesus, God and the emperor are so far apart that a competition between them is meaningless.

On the making of prayer books

September 27, 2017

My students do not need theological drivel in paperback; they need the material tools to do their work.

Unplanned parenthood

August 4, 2017

Commentary, The Episcopal Church

I suspect that most agree with this basic principle, this core assumptions of modern democratic life: pregnancies should be, with rare and rarely charming exceptions, planned.