Bill Wylie-Kellermann
Bill Wylie-Kellermann is a nonviolent community activist, writer, and United Methodist pastor living in Wawiatanong/Detroit. He is also is part of the Community at Kirkridge. Bill was a friend of William Stringfellow’s and has done several books on him, including A Keeper of the Word: Selected Writings of William Stringfellow (Eerdmans, 1994), William Stringfellow: Essential Writings, (Orbis, 2013), Principalities in Particular: A Practical Theology of the Powers that Be (Fortress, 2017). He was married to Denise Griebler on Advent’s Joy Sunday, 2013. They have five grandchildren.
Events with Bill Wylie-Kellermann
February 28 - March 2, 2025
A year before his martyrdom, Martin Luther King, Jr. identified the giant triplets of racism, militarism, and extreme materialism, as demanding a revolution of values. William Stringfellow, in his discerning of signs and spirits, also identified them among the reigning powers of that era, as indeed our own. As an exercise in practical theology, this retreat will contemplate a spiritual, personal, and political struggle with these principalities even in their new guises. This anticipates a work of intercession on behalf of Earth’s creatures – human and more – one joined by a cloud of kin and witnesses on whom we…
November 14 - 16, 2025
How is direct action or civil disobedience altered when framed in prayerful worship? What dimensions of freedom are then embraced? When public witness tells the story of faith and marks a feast or season, what new depth of communication is opened? When nonviolence is practiced in sacramental forms, how is liturgy itself enhanced? With examples from the freedom movement, antiwar movements, anti-imperial and decolonizing struggles, and more, this retreat will offer opportunities for the imaginative work of movement action from a Christian perspective. Join practitioners in re-discerning your own local work. Come as a group to think it through together…