James Parker Keller

Three Islands in My Life and Ministry James Parker Keller

This book traces the non-traditional ministry of James Parker Keller. It starts in Union Theological Seminary in NYC, goes to the Iona Community and a parish in a ship building town, Burntisland, in Scotland (2 years), returns a South Bronx church (10 years), then an ecumenical ministry with Hispanics in Lawrence (19 years), and goes to community development work, including Habitat for Humanity in Cuernavaca, Mexico. It describes his successful battles to open school records in New York City and build dry toilets (baños secos) in Mexico. His ministry has sought to follow Jesus's way announced in his in his first sermon. "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free." (Luke 4:18, NRSV).