Stephen Joseph Wolf

Stephen Joseph Wolf is retired, a former parish priest (22 lents & holy weeks), spiritual director and retreat leader, and former certified public accountant (14 tax seasons), and before that worked as a landscaper, desk clerk, laundry worker, janitor, paper boy, and student, growing up the second of eight sons of a parish secretary and Nashville's best television repairman. He completed a B.S. at MTSU, an M.B.A. at Belmont University, and an M.Div. at Mundelein Seminary, and continues to write poems and songs and paint folk art icons, sing baritone for the LGBTQ+ chorus Nashville in Harmony, plays the ukulele with Music for Seniors and others, volunteers as bookkeeper for two non-profits, serves on the board of PFLAG Nashville, gathers with the LGBTQ+Catholic group Always God's Children, and lives in Nashville with his husband Billy. Most of his writing has been for Catholic and ecumenical faith sharing groups and retreats. He is still waiting for a boring day.

"If I had not been a parish priest, I would probably have been a Trappist monk; but they don't baptize babies."

"The faith-sharing books have all been parish-tested in small groups, except "Being Spouses," which comes from years of engaged couple preparation for marriage, pastoral counseling, and annulment ministry."

"I wrote the prayer books primarily for my own use, but wanted to make them available for others."