Rev. D. Andrew Kille

D. Andrew Kille (born 1950) is an American writer, teacher, biblical scholar and interfaith activist.

Kille was born in Ventura, California and attended Ojai Valley School and The Thacher School in Ojai, California before entering Stanford University. He graduated in 1971 with a degree in English Literature, and attended the American Baptist Seminary of the West in Berkeley, California, where he received his M.Div degree.

He served as a pastor at the Grace Baptist Church in San Jose, California for fifteen years, before returning to school. He received the first Ph.D. granted in Psychological biblical criticism from the Graduate Theological Union in 1997. His interest in psychology and the Bible began during his years as a pastor and was nurtured through the work of Morton Kelsey, John A. Sanford, Elizabeth Howes and the Guild for Psychological Studies, and Carl Jung. He has contributed to several volumes of psychological biblical criticism.

Kille has served as both co-Chair and Chair of the Psychology and Biblical Studies Section of the Society of Biblical Literature. In 2007, he was named Editor of The Bible Workbench, a study resource on the Bible rooted in a psychologically informed approach, published by The Educational Center in Charlotte, NC.

In addition to his work in psychological biblical criticism, Kille has been active for over 30 years in interfaith dialogue. He is founder and director of Interfaith Space in San Jose, California, and also serves as editor of Bay Area Interfaith Connect, the newsletter of the Interfaith Center at the Presidio in San Francisco, California.

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