Keelan Cook

Keelan Cook is an Associate Director with the Union Baptist Association in Houston, TX and serves as an instructor of North American missiology at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Current

Associate Director at Union Baptist Association

Instructor of North American Missiology at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary

Education

  • Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Theology (In process) - Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
  • Master of Arts in Christian Studies (2008) - Union University
  • Bachelor of Arts in Public Relations (2004) - Union University

Ministry Experience

Associate Director (2020-Present) Union Baptist Association, Houston, TX

Senior Church Consultant (2017-2019) Union Baptist Association, Houston, TX

Pastor (2013-2017) Imago Dei Church, Raleigh, NC

People Group Research and Diaspora Strategist (2013) North American Mission Board, Washington, DC

Journeyman (2009-2011) International Mission Board, West Africa

College Minister (2005-2009) First Baptist Church, Humboldt, TN

Teaching and Higher Education Experience

Instructor of North American Missiology (2019-Present) Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Wake Forest, NC

Urban Resource Coordinator (2012-2017) Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Wake Forest, NC

Coordinator of Markering and Enrollment (2006-2007) Union University, Jackson, TN

Publications

Articles & Chapters

  • “The Church and Her Mission to the Cities: A Theological Rubric to Evaluate Urban Mission Methods,” Occasional Bulletin of EMS 30.2 (Spring 2017).
  • “Unreached People Groups,” Patterned: Sharing and Imitating Christ Together (NC Baptists, 2017).

Selected Essays

  • “Cross-Cultural Missions: Crossing Streets and Crossing Oceans,” imb.org (February 14, 2019).
  • “Contextualization as Gospel Incarnation,” Send Institute (June 26, 2018).
  • “The de-Europeanization of American Christianity,” Send Institute (April 3, 2018).
  • “Demographics that Speak,” Send Institute (January 30, 2018).
  • “Some American Muslims Leave Islam, But Protestant Converts Often Replace Them,” Facts & Trends (February 19, 2018).
  • “Engaging people groups: Cultural expertise vs. cultural acquisition,” NCBaptist.org (November 23, 2015).

Presentations

Evangelical Missiological Society

  • “Super-Diversity and Urban Mission,” Evangelical Missiological Society South-Central Regional Meeting, April 7, 2018, at the Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics (Dallas, TX).
  • “The Church and Her Mission to the Cities: Developing Missiological Method for the Urban Context,” Evangelical Missiological Society National Meeting October 14, 2016, at the Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics (Dallas, TX).
  • “Moving Past Urban Ministry: Rethinking a Popular Definition,” Evangelical Missiological Society National Meeting, September 19, 2015, at the Graduate Institue of Applied Linguistics (Dallas, TX).