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 Dick and Mardi Keyes
Dick has worked for L'Abri Fellowship in Switzerland and in England, where he served also as a pastor in the International Presbyterian Church in London for eight years. He has been an adjunct professor at Gordon Conwell Seminary and Westminster Theological Seminary. He is the author of Beyond Identity, True Heroism, Chameleon Christianity and several chapters in anthologies such as No God But God, ed. Os Guinnes, Finding God at Harvard, ed. Kelly Monroe, and New Dictionary of Christian Apologetics from Intervarsity Press. He is currently writing a book on cynicism. He has lectured widely in the U.S. and also in Europe and Korea. As with many workers in L'Abri, Dick's interests are many and varied. If there is any integrating idea it is the attempt to connect important aspects of modern life to Biblical truth with a theological, apologetic and pastoral concern. His writing on identity, heroism and cynicism, for example, are efforts to help Christians toward a more integrated and engaged faith, but also to help those who are not Christians to be able to see the claims of Jesus from a fresh perspective. Dick and Mardi worship at a nearby African American church in which Dick is part of the ministry team. Dick enjoys reading, working in the woods and playing blues guitar and ragtime guitar for self-therapy. Mardi graduated from Wellesley College with a degree in Biblical History in 1968. Shortly after, she married Dick Keyes, and in 1970, they moved to Europe to work with L'Abri. They spent six months in Switzerland, and eight and a half years in England (London and Greatham). While working with L'Abri in London, they also housed a very multicultural church in their home. In 1979, the Keyes moved to Southborough, Massachusetts, where they opened the first residential branch of L'Abri in the United States. Mardi's work at home includes hospitality, serving meals, tutoring students and managing their work, teaching and writing. She also travels in the United States and abroad, to speak at conferences, colleges and universities. Since about 1980, Dick and Mardi have been on the Board of Help a Child, a charitable Christian organization providing homes, food, healthcare, education and job training to orphans and other poor children in India and Africa. Mardi
lectures on a variety of topics, including hospitality, the problem of
evil, the family, children, adolescence, youth culture, the Christian
mind, feminism and other gender issues. She frequently speaks about Christianity
and Feminism at secular colleges and universities. Mardi has published
a number of articles, and a booklet entitled Feminism
& the Bible. She also contributed a chapter in response to
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, in the book, Women
and the Future of the Family. In her lectures and writing, Mardi
tries to relate Biblical teaching to social
Mardi and Dick are the parents of three grown sons, and are now proud grandparents! Chris (the new father) works in criminal justice and his wife Liz is the clinical director of a group home for troubled boys. Tim is an ornithologist and environmentalist (who has spoken on the biblical environmental ethic at L'Abri conferences). Tim's wife Alice is also an environmentalist with expertise in water resources. Ben is a musician and artist who works in a number of mediums, including bonsai trees. Mardi, Dick and Ben are minority members of a Black Church, which has enriched their lives and experience of worship enormously. Dick is a member of the Ministerial Team; Mardi sings in the New Gospel Chorale (one of six choirs); and Ben directs the children's choir and accompanies several other choirs. Mardi enjoys walking, watching the birds on and around our feeder, reading fiction, playing the piano, gardening and in the winter - tromping around in snowshoes. Joe and Sue Morrell
Sue's interests include gardening, learning about music and literature from students, reading about "simplifying life" in the busyness of today's culture and enjoying the beautiful outdoors of New England with Joe and the children. Sue is also a board member of Luke's school whose founder's have had a long relationship with L'Abri. Joe grew up in Seattle and graduated in music from the Cornish Institute of the Allied Arts in 1982. He taught piano for several years and then moved to France to study French, and found his way to Swiss L'Abri where he stayed for a time as a student and helper. After spending a year at London Bible College he then joined the L'Abri staff in Switzerland in 1989. Joe and Sue met there and then moved to England to be married. Joe's interests involve mainly culture and the arts, and he has lectured on music and literature and also on various aspects of relationships. He likes movies, gardening, theater, has a penchant for the New Yorker magazine, and doesn't want you to know he enjoys reading recipes from any cookbook or rag he can get his hands on. Joe and Sue attend Our Savior Lutheran Church in Westminster, MA.
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Dick
Keyes is the Director of L'Abri Fellowship in Southborough, Massachusetts,
where he has worked with his wife and family since 1979. He holds a B.A.
in History from Harvard University, and an M.Div. from Westminster Theological
Seminary in Philadelphia.
After
having grown up in the countryside of Western Australia, Sue moved to
Perth and became a Registered Nurse. She worked in a teaching hospital
for several years and then traveled to Britain to become a midwife. It
was during that time of traveling in Europe and living in London that
Sue became familiar with the work of L'Abri in Hampshire. Sue joined the
staff in August 1987 and continued working there after she and Joe married
in 1992. Joe and Sue moved to Southborough in 1995 where they now live
with their two sons Luke and Nate. They are responsible for most of the
day to day running of the house amidst tutoring, lecturing and offering
hospitality and meals to the students and visitors.