For over a quarter-century, Dr. Bob Kellemen has examined the Scriptures and Church history to develop a comprehensive approach to soul care, spiritual direction, spiritual formation, biblical counseling, and discipleship. His passion is to equip people to change lives with Christ's changeless truth.

For the past twelve years, Bob has served as the Chairman of the Master of Arts in Christian Counseling and Discipleship Department at Capital Bible Seminary in Lanham, MD.

Bob also works as a consultant for the 50,000-member American Association of Christian Counselors (AACC). He is the Co-Director of the AACC's Biblical Counseling and Spiritual Formation Network (BCSFN). In this role, he edits the BCSFN Transformation Newsletter and the BCSFN Formatio E-News. Bob also writes a quarterly column (Soul Physicians) in the AACC's Christian Counseling Connection Newsletter and he writes a quarterly column (Truth for Life) in the AACC's Christian Counseling Today magazine.

Through RPM Ministries, Dr. Kellemen offers seminars and conferences on spiritual growth, spiritual friendship, marriage, parenting, and men's issues. Through Rivendell Personal Ministries, Bob and his wife, Shirley, offer soul care and spiritual direction to ministry families.

In his three pastoral ministries, Bob has trained hundreds of lay people in the art of spiritual friendship. As a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, Bob brings a practitioner's sensitivity to his writing and seminar ministry.

Bob is the author of Soul Physicians: A Theology of Soul Care and Spiritual Direction, Spiritual Friends: A Methodology of Soul Care and Spiritual Direction, and of Beyond the Suffering: Embracing the Legacy of African American Soul Care and Spiritual Direction . Additionally, Bob has authored scores of articles and presentation papers, hundreds of reviews, and several e-books.

He earned his B.A. in Pastoral Ministry from Baptist Bible College, his Th.M. in Theology and Biblical Counseling from Grace Theological Seminary, and his Ph.D. in Counselor Education from Kent State University.

Bob lives in Indiana with his wife of twenty-seven years, Shirley. They have two children: Josh who is 23, and Marie who is 19.

In addition to teaching, counseling, speaking, consulting, editing, and writing, Bob is a high school wrestling coach and an avid sports fan.