Reminiscing about Gerald Keown

This biography of Gerald Keown explores events in his professional and personal life, as well as their frequent particularly Baptist context. Those who knew Gerald Keown recognized the many qualities that made him so impressive: his personal charisma, his thirst for knowledge, his scientific training, his joie de vivre, his commitment to bettering his craft, his Baptist identity, his commitment to historic Baptist principles, such as freedom of conscience and the separation of church and state, and his deep abiding commitment to serving the church local and universal, even after some of the leaders of his own denomination sought to do him harm.