Amar Peterman

Amar D. Peterman, Civic Strategies Specialist, oversees the Good Neighbors Project, an initiative focused on equipping and connecting American evangelicals to live faithfully and neighborly in our world today. Amar is an accomplished author and constructive theologian. His work has been featured in publications ranging from Christianity Today to Sojourners Magazine. He holds an M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary, a B.A. in Theology from Moody Bible Institute, and is a current PhD student at the University of Chicago. Before coming to Interfaith America, Amar served as Assistant Director of Neighborly Faith and Director of the Center for Empathy in Christian and Public Life.

He published his first book, Becoming Neighbors: The Common Good Made Local, in March 2026 with Eerdmans Publishing Co. In Becoming Neighbors, Amar explores how the common good can be cultivated through the practice of neighbor love. And he encourages Christians to join their neighbors at what he calls “the shared table”—a space where communities gather across differences to work towards the flourishing of the whole.