Keith Andrews

Milton Keith Andrews (born 1954) is an American Anglican bishop. He is currently serving as the second bishop of the Diocese of Western Anglicans in the Anglican Church in North America. Ordained in the Episcopal Church, he was the rector of a congregation that split during the Anglican realignment. Education and early career Andrews received a B.A. and M.A. from Arizona State University, his M.Div. from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific and his D.Min. from Fuller Theological Seminary. His first clergy role was as assistant rector at All Saints Episcopal Church in Carmel, California, from 1981 to 1983, followed by serving as associate rector at Christ Church of the Ascension in Paradise Valley, Arizona. In 1985, Andrews was the planting vicar of St. James Episcopal Church. The church first met in living rooms, and the moved to rented locations at a school and a synagogue. In 1991, St. James built a permanent building in Tempe and established a preschool. Andrews became rector after the congregation received parish status in the Episcopal Diocese of Arizona. Anglican realignment Andrews has said that he had grown increasingly uncomfortable with what he called "deconstructionist" theology in the Episcopal Church. "I was trained in deconstructionism," he said of his seminary education. "The truth is, I’m a moderate. The problem is that things have moved so consistently to the left in the church over the past 30 to 40 years that now I am seen as ‘fringe.’ I was still in this church all this time because I was committed to the life of the church and to its health and well-being."