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Peter Strimer

As rector of Saint Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Seattle, Washington, Peter Strimer experiences all the challenges and joys of a 350-household parish with a vibrant children and youth ministry as well as a Center for Healing, Community and Lifelong Learning.   

Following his MDiv program at Berkeley/Yale, Peter’s ministry began as Associate Rector of Trinity, Columbus, Ohio where he served as the outreach and youth pastor. He then ran the Hunger Network in Ohio while completing the course work for a PhD in Communication. In 1988 Peter helped found the Third Ave. Community Church, a new church start that used principles of Liberation Theology to launch a congregation committed to social justice. In his last years in Ohio he was also vicar, of St. John’s, Columbus, before receiving a call to be the Canon Missioner at St. Mark’s Cathedral, Seattle, in 1995.   

After eight years at St. Mark’s Peter moved to the Bishop of Olympia’s office as Missioner for Communication Ministry. In 2006 he returned to parish work after being elected rector of St. Andrew’s. 

Recent Posts:

Re-enter Dancing
The Blues
Public Liturgy
When in Rome
Taize
A Free Man in Paris
The Crater of Creation
Slavery in Zanzibar
Leaving Uganda
I Have Seen the Future: It is Kampala
Ugandan Hospitality
Back to Africa
Walking Away for a While
A New Church Begins
Doing a New Thing
Partnership in the Round
Which Way to Worship
Collegiality
Dream Budget
Talking to Kids about Faith
Church in the Round
Beyond Functions: An Incarnational Ministry Fair
“Final Affairs” Fair Offers a Good Way Out
What to Do When a Ministry Outlasts a Church?
Vacation with a Difference
Marking 9/11
Being and Doing
Program Year Start Up Checklist
Taking My Leave
Back to the Garden
Work Hard, Play Hard
Ecstasy
Getting Started
Summer as its own Liturgical Season
How Does Your (Church) Garden Grow?
Starting from Scratch
Marketing 101
Sing a New Song
What was THAT All About?
Lunch is on Me
Giving our Church to our Children for Easter
Is This Some Kind of Joke?
Holy Weak
Bishop Sutton on Leadership
Morning Prayer Solitaire
Giving up Lent for Lent
We Gather Together: Conversations on Same-Gender Blessings 2
We Gather Together: Conversations on Same-Gender Blessings
State of the Church Part 2
State of the Church Part 1
For Lent: Downward Mobility
Fat Tuesday
Leave
Trialability
Responding to the Call, Part 2
The Resurgent Church
New Ministry Celebrations
Super Bowl Sunday
30 Years and Counting
State of the Union, State of the Church
The Postmodern Turn
Reading the Scripture Through Other Eyes – The Trinity Institute in Real Time
The Most Fun You Ever Had in Church
The Church at Rest
Quiénes son nuevos y quiénes faltan
Who’s New and Who’s Missing
Top Episcopal News Stories for 2010
A Religion Born in a Barn
My December To Do List
Christmas Christians
Isaiah’s Spirit for Today’s Divided Nation
Child's Eye View of Church
Advent Haiku
New Year's Resolutions
Responding to THE Call
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot like Christmas . . .
Who Presides When the Bishop Comes? We do.
Conventional Wisdom and Gene Robinson's Retirement
Tree of Life
You Get What You Pay For
Conventional Wisdom
¿Abarca mucho pero aprieta poco su junta parroquial?
Is your vestry 'committee of the whole,' leaving a hole?
I do my filing once a year whether I need to or not....
Going Green
Writing from the 'None' Zone