Peter L. Edman

Peter L. Edman is director of research at The Trinity Forum.

Primarily an editor and researcher, he also does work in graphic design, database management, and print and web publishing.

Peter has spent most of his career in the nonprofit sector. He has been with The Trinity Forum for more than twelve years and coordinates curriculum materials for the organization’s leadership seminars, as well as managing and developing the organization’s intellectual property and its website.

He assisted with the research, editing, and layout of all of the Trinity Forum seminar curricula (most extensively with Children of Prometheus, the curriculum on technology, and But Not Through Me, the curriculum on the problem of evil) as well as most of the periodical Trinity Forum Readings and assorted other publishing projects. In the mid-1990s he worked for five years as director of forums, managing several conferences each year.

Peter also serves part-time as director of communications for the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in Mecosta, Michigan and an associate editor for its journal of reviews, the University Bookman. Before he took positions at the Trinity Forum and the Kirk Center in early 2002, he worked most recently as editor of BreakPoint Online, the flagship website of The Wilberforce Forum, a division of Prison Fellowship Ministries.

Peter was the founding Managing Editor and later an editorial board member of Regeneration Quarterly, a magazine on faith and culture by and for emerging leaders from across the Christian traditions that ran from 1993 through 2002. He has served on local and national advisory boards of The Vine, the national gathering at one point affiliated with the magazine.

Peter earned a bachelor’s degree in political science (with a minor in computer science) at Messiah College and a master’s degree, summa cum laude, from Yale University Divinity School, where he studied religion and literature with a focus on the moral imagination and the tradition of Christian humanism. His academic and personal interests include speculative fiction, technology, theology, and popular culture. Raised in New Hampshire, he now considers Northern Virginia home. He and his wife Sherri have two small boys and are members of Church of the Apostles in Fairfax.

In his increasingly limited spare time, he is the editor of Metaphilm, a website dedicated to interpreting and enjoying movies.