Stephen D. Peterson was born to Scandinavian stock in St. Paul, Minnesota, and after an itinerant childhood (including stops in Pennsylvania, Texas, Georgia, Tennessee, and Idaho), settled in a suburb of Atlanta. In between, he studied at King University and the Emory University School of Law. He’s a practicing lawyer and adult Sunday school teacher at Church of the Apostles in Atlanta, where he has been a member throughout his adult life. Steve and his wife Toria have four children. "How to Become a For Real Christian" is his first book.