Keith is a Canadian-born Australian. He was nurtured in a strong and winningly Christian home. He has lived in Australia from the age of eleven.
Keith chose high school teaching as a stepping stone to his dream of becoming a pastor and preacher. After four enjoyable years of teaching English and History, he entered Moore Theological College in Sydney to train for the Anglican ministry. After leaving college, he completed a curacy at St Peter’s South Tamworth before becoming the Vicar of Wee Waa in the north west of New South Wales. Keith felt he had ‘arrived’ as had four sons by then, and a fifth before he left to join the faculty of Moore College. There he had the privilege of teaching philosophy, apologetics and pastoral ministry. He became the head of the college’s ministry department. While at Moore, Keith completed Masters and Doctoral degrees in theology, the thesis from the latter (published as a book) was entitled, ‘Alvin Plantinga and Christian Apologetics’ (2006).
After ten full-time years at Moore, Keith became assistant minister to Rev. John McIntyre (later to become Bishop of Gippsland) in the Anglican Parish of South Sydney. He taught for a further five years part-time at Moore before becoming Mission Australia’s National Chaplain. He had by then become something of friendly critic of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney, including aspects of its culture, to which he drew attention in a widely supported Open Letter (2006) calling for reform.
Keith’s journey of faith had taken him steadily away from the fundamentalism/evangelicalism of his youth and college years. While working as a parole (or community corrections) officer, he wrote ‘A Restless Faith’ (2012) and ‘Faith without Fear’ (2016). Prior to retirement at the end of 2022, Keith was employed to manage the NSW multi-faith prison chaplaincy service.
Keith is married to Judy. They have five sons and seven grandchildren. His interests include philosophy, hermeneutics, politics and sport. He loves to meet over coffee or a meal with family and friends.