Anne Snyder is the editor-in-chief of Comment, a magazine of public theology for the common good that is becoming a vibrant ecosystem of conversation and community—rooted in the Christian humanist tradition and expressed through a growing podcast network, gatherings that span grassroots to institutional settings across North America and the U.K., and a three-day festival at the Washington National Cathedral. She also hosts The Whole Person Revolution podcast and co-edited Breaking Ground: Charting Our Future in a Pandemic Year (2022).
Prior to leading Comment, Anne directed The Philanthropy Roundtable’s Character Initiative, helping foundations and business leaders strengthen “the middle ring” of morally formative institutions. Her pathbreaking guidebook, The Fabric of Character: A Wise Giver’s Guide to Renewing our Social and Moral Landscape (2019), grew out of that work. She has also held positions with Laity Lodge and the H.E. Butt Foundation in Texas, and earlier with The New York Times, World Affairs Journal, and the Ethics and Public Policy Center. She is a Senior Fellow of The Trinity Forum.
Anne has published widely—including in The Atlantic Monthly, The Washington Post, Bittersweet Monthly, and of course Comment—but her true joy comes in cultivating spaces of beauty and encounter where people of different backgrounds can be surprised by one another and renewed.
She spent the formative years of her childhood overseas before earning a bachelor’s degree from Wheaton College (IL) and a master’s degree from Georgetown University. She now lives in Washington, D.C.
Speaker’s Bureau
October 20, 2020 | “Christianity & the Case for Democracy” an Online Conversation with Luke Bretherton, Deondra Rose, and Anne Snyder
March 27, 2020 | “The Long Loneliness” an Online Conversation with Anne Snyder
February 19, 2019 | “Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse” an Evening Conversation in Washington, DC with Anne Snyder and Tim Carney
Related Trinity Forum Readings
“The Long Loneliness” by Dorothy Day, featuring an original introduction by David and Anne Snyder Brooks
Selected Publications and Scholarly Work
Comment Quarterly Editorials (from start of editorship in 2019 to present)
Breaking Ground: Charting Our Future in a Pandemic Year (2022)
Revisiting Carl Henry’s “Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism” … 75 Years Later (2022)
Turning the Tide: A New Page in Christian Influence (2019)
The Fabric of Character: A Wise Giver’s Guide to Supporting Social and Moral Renewal (2019)
Millennials Reinvent Localism in their Search for Community (2018)
Policing with Velvet Gloves (2016)
Inequality in an Acre (2014)
Persuading in a Divided Age (2013)