--- title: Abundant Aging - Center for Abundant Aging | Rev. Dr. Bobbie McKay description: Rev. Bobbie McKay, Ph.D., is a UCC minister, author and licensed psychologist. Rev. McKay cocreated the Spiritual Health Center, NFP, and conducted a research study on spiritual life in the United Church of Christ. Based on the findings of this study, Spiritual Life Teams were born, and the study has been extended to the Episcopal church, the Catholic church and the Reform Jewish Community in the greater Chicago area as well as to Islamic populations in New York, Illinois and Florida. Rev. McKay currently works as pastoral associate in Spiritual Life at Glenview Community Church in Glenview, Illinois. --- [![Center for Abundant Aging](https://www.unitedchurchhomes.org/wp-content/uploads/uch-logo-200x84.png "Center for Abundant Aging")](https://www.unitedchurchhomes.org/parker-center) [Back to United Church Homes](https://www.unitedchurchhomes.org/) This is a search field with an auto-suggest feature attached. - There are no suggestions because the search field is empty. - [Educational Opportunities](https://www.unitedchurchhomes.org/parker-center/educational-opportunities/) - [Overview](https://www.unitedchurchhomes.org/parker-center/educational-opportunities/) - [Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE)](https://www.unitedchurchhomes.org/parker-center/educational-opportunities/clinical-pastoral-education-cpe/) - [Quellhorst Endowment Fund](https://www.unitedchurchhomes.org/parker-center/educational-opportunities/quellhorst-scholars/) - [High School Community Service Opportunities](https://www.unitedchurchhomes.org/parker-center/educational-opportunities/high-school-community-service-opportunities/) - [Internships-Undergraduate and Graduate](https://www.unitedchurchhomes.org/parker-center/educational-opportunities/internships-undergraduate-and-graduate/) - [Research Opportunities](https://www.unitedchurchhomes.org/parker-center/educational-opportunities/research-opportunities/) - Engagement with Congregations - [Resources for Worship and Reflection](https://www.unitedchurchhomes.org/parker-center/resources-for-worship-and-reflection/) - [Age-Friendly Congregations](https://www.unitedchurchhomes.org/parker-center/age-friendly-congregations/) - [Church Resources](https://www.unitedchurchhomes.org/parker-center/church-resources/) - [About the Center](https://www.unitedchurchhomes.org/parker-center/about-the-center/) - [Overview](https://www.unitedchurchhomes.org/parker-center/about-the-center/) - [Meet Rev. 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McKay currently works as pastoral associate in Spiritual Life at Glenview Community Church in Glenview, Illinois. ## Recent Blog Posts ### On Hope In The Face Of Reality By Rev. Dr. Bobbie McKay  •  February 05, 2026 It was fifteen years ago and in another Christmas season when sudden, unwanted symptoms entered my body spreading cancer molecules everywhere. The most serious question.. [Read More](https://blog.unitedchurchhomes.org/on-hope-in-the-face-of-reality) ### On Life and Time! By Rev. Dr. Bobbie McKay  •  December 11, 2025 Time speaks and we try to listen, not always knowing that God speaks through the medium of sudden and unexpected ideas. Time disappears and we grow impatient. Time goes.. [Read More](https://blog.unitedchurchhomes.org/on-life-and-time) ### The Spark Within: A Child’s Journey into Creativity & Learning By Rev. Dr. Bobbie McKay  •  October 16, 2025 My story is not like everyone’s story. Not every child goes to a business college at age seven to learn how to type so they could become a writer. Not everyone had a.. [Read More](https://blog.unitedchurchhomes.org/the-transformative-power-of-education-and-creativity) ### When Love Finds a Home By Rev. Dr. Bobbie McKay  •  June 12, 2025 It was a beautiful day in May 1973 and it was our wedding day--a second marriage for both of us and our entry into that new kind of family that was emerging, better.. [Read More](https://blog.unitedchurchhomes.org/when-love-finds-a-home) ### The Message and Miracle of Our Tears By Rev. Dr. Bobbie McKay  •  February 27, 2025 Our tears carry a message of pain and sorrow; loss and fear; love and lost love. They are our body’s way of discharging the energy that collects around any pain we are.. [Read More](https://blog.unitedchurchhomes.org/message-miracle-of-tears) ### Words For a New Year For Everyone By Rev. Dr. Bobbie McKay  •  January 09, 2025 I look at the wonderful clock that my very grown daughter supplied for Christmas, 2024 and I smile at the thought of this child of mine--now in her 60’s. I nod to the.. [Read More](https://blog.unitedchurchhomes.org/words-for-a-new-year-for-everyone) ### The Day I Lost All My Friends By Rev. Dr. Bobbie McKay  •  November 07, 2024 I wasn’t expecting to lose anything. It was the summer before I started high school and as far as I was concerned, life was normal but with an edge of excitement that.. [Read More](https://blog.unitedchurchhomes.org/the-day-i-lost-all-my-friends) ### The Incredible Gifts of Purpose and Meaning By Rev. Dr. Bobbie McKay  •  August 22, 2024 I was born in 1931 in Chicago, Illinois, the youngest of four children. My dad worked in the complicated world of labor relations which contained elements of danger and.. [Read More](https://blog.unitedchurchhomes.org/the-incredible-gifts-of-purpose-and-meaning) ### The Summer Job By Rev. Dr. Bobbie McKay  •  July 11, 2024 I grew up in a suburb outside of Chicago named Evanston, Illinois. It was the home of Northwestern University; a neighbor of Loyola University and existed part way.. 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