Callid Keefe-Perry is Assistant Professor of Public Theology and Director of Contextual Education at Boston College’s Clough School of Theology and Ministry. He is the author of Sense of the Possible: An Introduction to Theology and Imagination and Way to Water: A Theopoetics Primer, which details the academic history of theopoetics and argues for its utility in contemporary Christian congregational life. His forthcoming book is Tending Call: A Liberation Theology of Vocation, with Orbis Press.

Callid is a mixed-methods empirical researcher who has worked with CCS in developing the “CCS Competencies Survey,” a national project intended to empirically establish a baseline for chaplaincy competencies and professional expectations. He is also researching the concept of moral injury and the potential for the development of a means of assessing the “moral orientation system” from Zachary Moon’s work in Warriors between Worlds: Moral Injury and Identities in Crisis. He received his PhD from Boston University’s School of Theology.