Daniel J. Meeter

Daniel J. Meeter lives in Brooklyn, New York, and spends a month every summer at a cabin in the Canadian Shield. He's a preacher (a Rev. Dr.) and he's married to a preacher, Rev. Melody Meeter, and his late father was a preacher, but neither of his two kids are preachers. What his two grandsons will be, God only knows.

Daniel is pastor of one of the oldest churches in New York, "Old First," founded in 1654 (as the Reformed Dutch Church of "Breukelen"), which has a mostly young congregation. He also teaches seminary students. He's active in the Park Slope community and in inter-faith cooperation.

Daniel spent his childhood in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, playing stickball and skelly in the street, and keeping cool under the fire-hydrant. Once he and his brother (when they were ten and eleven) rode their bikes to Queens along what's now the Jackie Robinson Parkway! "What are you, nuts?"

Daniel loves the Bible, church music, opera, and the Mets. Mets fans relate to opera because the soprano always dies in the last act. He loves trees and birds, and Bach.