David G. R. Keller

David Keller is an Episcopal priest who spent the first 20 years of his ministry with Athabaskan Indians and Yupic and Inupiat Eskimos in Alaska. He worked alongside Alaskan Native leaders in community development projects and developing training for local people for lay and ordained ministries. He helped found an ecumenical consortium for cooperating in the training of Alaskan Native ministries. David worked with Native leaders and state and federal officials in crafting the details of the federal Alaskan Native Claims Settlement Act of 1991. Later, David was the Director of the Bishop’s School for Ministry Development for the Episcopal Church in Arizona and then Steward of the Episcopal House of Prayer at St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville, MN. He has led retreats throughout the USA and UK and taught in the Center for Christian Spirituality at the General Theological Seminary in New York City. David is the author of Come and See: The Transformation of Personal Prayer and Lord, Teach Us To Pray: One Hundred Daily Reflections on Jesus’ Life of Prayer. With his wife, Emily Wilmer, he directs Oasis of Wisdom: A Center for Contemplative Living. oasisofwisdom.net David built a Newtonian telescope when he was 13 and has been an avid amateur astronomer ever since. He and his wife, Emily Wilmer, love hiking and they hike regularly along the coastal paths in Sonoma County, CA and interior and coastal paths in Wales.