Key was born in North Carolina and studied at Elon College (now
Elon University) in Elon, North Carolina;
Vanderbilt Divinity School; and
Yale Divinity School. He was a United Church of Christ pastor in Connecticut, Michigan, Ohio, and Virginia; his connections to Appalachia included serving as an executive of the Council of Churches in West Virginia.
Additional information, and the texts of 11 sermons, can be found in A Timely Message for Our Day (Charlotte, NC: Crabtree Press, 1972), The book is under copyright, so scans cannot be included in the Library, but information about the sermons is included in the User Guides. Researchers may contact the Special Collections Department to learn more.
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Key User Guide
Robert H. Ellison
The User Guide for the Library of Appalachian Preaching is a Google Sheet that can be searched, sorted, and downloaded for offline use.
This part of the Guide provides information about Key's sermons. It includes the title, sermon text, date and place the sermon was preached, and so on. This information is available in the master list of sermons as well.
