Peter Owen-Jones

Peter Owen-Jones (born 1957) is an English Anglican priest, author and television presenter.

The Reverend
Peter Owen-Jones
Born1957 (age 6263)
Spouse(s)Jac Owen-Jones (separated)
Children4
ChurchChurch of England
Ordained1993
Congregations served
Firle, Sussex, UK
Offices held
Subdean, rector

Owen-Jones dropped out of public school at the age of 16 and went to Australia to make his fortune. Back in Britain, he began his working life as a farm labourer in southeast England and then ran a mobile disco before moving to London where he started in advertising as a messenger boy and worked his way up to creative director.

In his late 20s and with a wife and two children, he gave up his commercial life to follow a calling to the Anglican ordained ministry by enrolling at Ridley Hall, Cambridge. In early 1996 he gained notoriety when he conducted a service for the Newbury bypass protestors.[1]

In 1998, he was responsible for three parishes in Cambridgeshire as the rector of Haslingfield (Harlton, Great Eversden and Little Eversden), before resigning from this position in 2005 to relocate to the benefice of Glynde, West Firle and Beddingham. He was recruited by the BBC to front a series of religious television programmes looking at different aspects of Christianity and other faiths.

He is married to Jac and as of May 2003 has four children.[2]

In his BBC documentary How to Live a Simple Life (2009),[3] Owen-Jones tried to live a life without money in the footsteps of Saint Francis of Assisi. His 2006 documentary, The Lost Gospels, discussed the Apocryphal Gospels which were omitted from the canon of the New Testament. He considered how their contents might have altered Christian theology if they had not been suppressed.

Books

  • Bed of Nails: An Advertising Executive's Journey Through Theological College, Lion Hudson, 1998, ISBN 978-0-7459-3628-4
  • Small Boat, Big Sea: One Year's Journey as a Parish Priest, Lion Publishing, 2000, ISBN 0-7459-5053-1
  • Psalm, O Books, 2005, ISBN 1-903816-91-2
  • Letters from an Extreme Pilgrim: Reflections on Life, Love and the Soul, Rider Books, 2010, ISBN 978-1-84604-133-4
  • Pathlands: 21 Tranquil Walks Among the Villages of Britain, Rider Books, 2015, ISBN 978-1-84604-443-4

Audio

  • Psalm, spoken word/electronica project[4]

Filmography

References

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