Pete is a former schoolteacher and served for several years in post-Katrina New Orleans as a volunteer coordinator and Episcopal Service Corps program director. He loves music and art, sports and fishing, writing and people. He believes the Church should foster belonging, creativity, and participation in the Spirit, not doctrinal obedience. He also believes in old trucks, county fairs, cooking outside, and singalongs (and the Oxford comma). He once had a fishing rod pulled into the water by a shark and dove in after it. He is an ordained Episcopal priest in Virginia and is looking forward to catching that elusive 60 pound catfish.