Russell Earl Kelly
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Russell Earl Kelly (born December 12, 1944, Miami, Florida), is a Christian writer.
One of six children of Emory J. and Elizabeth (Betty) Jarrett, Russell grew up in Jacksonville, Florida before the family moved to Marietta, Georgia while he was in the tenth grade in 1960. He graduated Cum Laude from Sprayberry High in 1962. From June 1962 until June 1966 he was in the U. S. A. F., received 22 semester hours in Chinese Mandarin at Yale University and was soon promoted to the Transcription Department while serving in Taiwan. In 1964 Russell married Rita LeCroy. The couple had two sons, Russell Jr. and Richard.
Russell grew up in a Baptist home, was active with Youth for Christ in high school, worked with missionaries in Taiwan and became a Seventh-day Adventist minister from 1973-1981. He graduated Cum Laude from Southern Missionary College in Tennessee in 1976 and served two churches in Georgia, four in North Dakota and one in South Carolina.
Although legally blind since 1989, Russell subsequently completed a Th. M., and Ph. D. His dissertation from Baptist-oriented Covington Theological Seminary in Ft. Oglethorpe, Georgia in 2001 was on the subject of tithing. From that dissertation came his first book, Should the Church Teach Tithing? A Theologian’s Conclusions about a Taboo Doctrine.[1] His second book is: Exposing Seventh-day Adventism, published in 2005. Theologically, Russell is a conservative evangelical dispensational Baptist.
Russell has been married to Janice Lynn (Rich) since 1998 and works at a retirement home. His favorite hobby is singing gospel, Elvis (Tribute Artist), Marty Robbins and Sinatra. As of 2007 he lived in Acworth, Georgia. After being mentioned in many news articles, he appeared in the Moody Broadcasting Prime Time America program on November 27, 2006. E-mail address is russkellyphd@earthlink.net.
