In addition to being an Affiliate Professor of Christian Ministry and Coordinator of Academic Advising at Palmer, the Rev. Dr. Peter Wool is a marriage and family therapist with a private practice in Center City Philadelphia. He also completed a post-degree program in Marital and Family Therapy specializing in Couple and Sex Therapy at PENN Council for Relationships, a Division of Family Study, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.

Pete is an ordained American Baptist minister who specializes in being an interim pastor in transitioning congregations. From 2009 to 2018, he served as Transitional Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Philadelphia. Before that, he also served as Interim Pastor at Lansdowne Baptist Church in Lansdowne, PA, the Baptist Church in the Great Valley, Devon, PA, and Central Baptist Church in Wayne, PA. Earlier on, prior to 1994, Pete was Pastor at the First Baptist Church of Lambertville, NJ, and then the First Baptist Church of Philadelphia.

Pete’s hobbies and interests include music, travel, reading, and cats.