Keith Dow, PhD, is Director of Culture and Mission Alignment at Karis Disability Services and a visiting researcher with Martin Luther University College in Waterloo. A theologian and credentialed pastor, he has worked alongside people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, their families, and support teams for more than eighteen years.

Keith completed his PhD in caregiving ethics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam under the supervision of Hans Reinders in 2019. He is the author of Formed Together: Mystery, Narrative, and Virtue in Christian Caregiving (Baylor University Press, 2021).

As a fellow in the Psychology Cross-Training for Theologians programme, Keith developed Images of God, an accessible, art-based research project exploring how Christian adults with intellectual disabilities experience and represent God and themselves. The resulting open-access article, “Imaging God Together,” was published in the Journal of Psychology and Theology. Keith recently completed a term as president of the Religion & Spirituality Interest Network of the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.

Keith lives in the woods south of Ottawa with his family and stereotypically enjoys wearing flannel, making maple syrup, and playing ice hockey.