Born: September 28, 1889, Wa­ter­town, Mass­a­chu­setts.

Died: Ju­ly 1964, Week­a­paug, Rhode Is­land.

Buried: Spring­field Cem­e­te­ry, Spring­field, Mass­a­chu­setts.

Gilkey grad­u­at­ed from Har­vard Coll­ege (1912) and Un­ion The­o­lo­gic­al Sem­in­a­ry. He was a teach­er and chap­lain at Am­herst Coll­ege, then, start­ing in 1917, pas­tored at the South Con­gre­ga­tion­al Church, Spring­field, Mass­a­chu­setts, un­til re­tir­ing in 1954. In 1926, he was the com­mence­ment speak­er at the Un­i­ver­si­ty of Con­nec­ti­cut. Gil­key’s works in­clude:

• A Faith for the New Genera­tion, 1926
• The Certainty of God, 1928
• Secrets of Effective Living (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927)
• Solving Life’s Everyday Problems, 1930
• Meeting the Challenge of Modern Doubt (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1931)
• Managing One’s Self, 1932
• What Can We Believe?, 1933
• You Can Mas­ter Life, 1934
• Getting Help from Religion, 1936
• The Problem of Following Jesus, 1938
• A Faith to Affirm, 1940
• How to Be Your Best
• God Will Help You, 1943
• When Life Gets Hard, 1945
• Gaining the Faith You Need, 1948

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1. Outside the Ho­ly City