{"id":25265,"date":"2025-05-29T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=25265"},"modified":"2025-05-30T23:02:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T23:02:59","slug":"keith-call-to-be-archivist-bhla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2025\/keith-call-to-be-archivist-bhla\/","title":{"rendered":"Keith Call to begin as director of Brethren Historical Library and Archives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Keith Call has been hired by the Church of the Brethren as director of the Brethren Historical Library and Archives (BHLA) at the General Offices in Elgin, Ill. He will begin work at the General Offices on June 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Call most recently served as an archivist for the College Church of Wheaton, Ill., but spent the bulk of his career as assistant archivist at the Wheaton College Archives and Special Collections, Buswell Library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He has published two history books about Wheaton and one about Oregon, Ill., as well as six published compilations including <em>The Ancient-Future Visionary<\/em> and <em>Worship is the Road to Revival<\/em>, both by Robert E. Webber; <em>Musings on a Starry Night<\/em> and <em>Pondering the Permanent Things<\/em>, both by Thomas Howard; and <em>A Well of Wonder: Essays on C.S. Lewis, J.R.R Tolkien and the Inklings<\/em> and <em>The Arts and the Christian Imagination: Essays on Art, Literature and Aesthetics<\/em>, both by Clyde S. Kilby. 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