About Rev. Dr. Bobbie McKay

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.

Recent Blog Posts

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..

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..

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..

The “Gift” Of Life

By Rev. Dr. Bobbie McKay  •  May 09, 2024

Caregiving for a New Generation

By Rev. Dr. Bobbie McKay  •  February 29, 2024

Generally speaking, there are three kinds of caretaking situations: (1) Those which occur within the family structure; (2) Those occasions outside the family structure;..

Pink Means Transformation

By Rev. Dr. Bobbie McKay  •  January 18, 2024

I had never planned on going into the ministry when I graduated from college in 1953. As a matter of fact, I didn’t have much of a plan for my future at all. In those..

A Christmas that Only God Could Plan!

By Rev. Dr. Bobbie McKay  •  December 21, 2023

I was standing on the deck of the USS Winston - one of the Navy’s finest cargo carriers getting underway at the San Diego Naval Station in June of 1953.

Our Race with Time

By Rev. Dr. Bobbie McKay  •  November 23, 2023

On November 23rd, this year, I will celebrate my 92nd birthday with the same words I’ve been using for the past few years: “Where DID the time go? What did I do with the..

Responding to the Pain and Reality of Ageism

By Rev. Dr. Bobbie McKay  •  September 14, 2023

It was summer, 2023, and life was good and the living was “easy”. And into that wonderful and special time came an invitation to my fourth grandchild’s wedding and a..