The Reverend Peter Snow grew up in England during WWII. As a member of St. John’s College, Cambridge, he studied academic theology and graduated with both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in the subject. He was ordained a priest of the Church of England in Birmingham, where he served as a parish priest. Peter moved to the United States with his family in 1967, and while in Southern California during the early seventies, experienced the full force of the Cultural Revolution. He subsequently helped develop alcohol treatment programs, battered women’s protection and assistance programs, and post-traumatic stress studies. He also worked on minority youth issues and youth ministries.

Peter is the author of three books: The Book of Sam: Putting Together a Spiritual Life Without a Lot of Belief (2018), Jesus: The God App. Conversations Along the Way (2017), and Jesus: Man, Not Myth (2011).

I’m very much looking forward to contributing to St. Stephen’s worship life at the Bond organ. I have spent much of the last six months as the interim organist at Trinity Parish downtown. I am employed full-time as a hospice chaplain by Kline Galland. Prior to beginning my first parish internship as a seminarian in 2018, I spent 37 years as a church music director, and spent most of my adult life working as a writer and editor at the Toronto Star daily newspaper in Canada. I moved to Seattle in April (from Sidney, Iowa), and have been sampling all that Seattle, Puget Sound, and the Cascades have to offer. My husband and I live near Seward Park, so I hope to use my time at St. Stephen’s as an opportunity to explore more of what lies north of the Ship Canal.