Keith Anderson

Keith Anderson serves as pastor at Upper Dublin Lutheran Church near Philadelphia. He is the author of The Digital Cathedral: Networked Ministry in a Wireless World (Morehouse, 2015) and is co-author with Elizabeth Drescher of Click2Save Reboot: The Digital Ministry Bible (Church Publishing, 2018). A popular blogger on religion, new media, and popular culture, his work has appeared on The Huffington Post, Religion Dispatches, Day 1, and The New Media Project.

Keith employs a wide range of social media to minister on and offline. He speaks regularly with local and national church groups, synods, and other organizations on the practice of digital ministry and the impact of digital culture on face-to-face ministry. He has taught at Andover-Newton Theological School and The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia. He received pastoral training at Harvard University Divinity School and The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia.

"'keeping it real' in the Digital Reformation means really creating church as a network of spaces-- digital and physical, liturgical and social ... For Anderson, these spaces are as likely to be at the local coffee house, the neighborhood pub, a bowling alley, or on his Facebook page, as he invites people to wrestle a sermon with him, as it is in the church "proper." In this way, he practices a flexible, improvisational ministry of presence that invites engagement, participation, and collaboration across a multi-dimensional spiritual space."

~ Elizabeth Drescher in Tweet if You Love Jesus: Practicing Church in the Digital Reformation, Morehouse 2011