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 After serving
almost three decades as Senior Minister, Forrest Church is now
Minister of Public Theology of All Souls. He was educated at
Stanford
University
(A.B., 1970), Harvard Divinity School (M.Div., 1974), and Harvard
University, where he received his Ph.D. in Early Church History
(1978).
Dr.
Church, who is 59 years old, has written or edited 23 books,
including: Father and Son: A Personal Biography of Senator
Frank Church of Idaho (Harper & Row, 1985); Our
Chosen Faith: An Introduction to Unitarian Universalism (Beacon,
1989); God and Other Famous Liberals (Simon and Schuster,
1991); Life Lines (Beacon 1996); Lifecraft (Beacon,
2000); Bringing God Home (St. Martins, 2002); The
American Creed (St. Martins, 2002) and Freedom From
Fear (St. Martins 2004). Recently he has been focusing
on the history of church and state in America as editor of
The Separation of Church and State (Beacon, 2004)
and author of So Help Me God: The Founding Fathers and
the First Great Battle over Church and State (Harcourt,
2007). Walker Press will publish his next book (Lincoln's
Penny: How America Almost Became a Christian Republic)
in early 2010.
Among
other works, he is editor of The Essential Tillich (University
of Chicago, 1999); The Macmillan Books of
Earliest Christian Prayers and Meditations (1988-1989);
One Prayer At a Time (Collier, 1989); Thomas Jefferson's
Bible (Beacon,
1989) and Restoring Faith: America’s Religious Leaders
Answer, Terror with Hope (Walker, 2001).
For
two years (1987-88), Dr. Church wrote a weekly column for the
Chicago Tribune; fifty
of these columns are collected in
Everyday Miracles: Stories From Life (Harper and Row, 1988).
He served two terms at Dartmouth College as Montgomery Fellow
and visiting professor (spring/summer 1989).
Eight
of his addresses have been selected for inclusion in the annual
anthology Representative American Speeches (Wilson & Co.):
"Love and Death" (1983-1984); "Terrorism" (1986-1987); "Chariots
of Fire" (1987-1988); "If I Were A Woman" (1989-1990); "Shall
We Overcome?" (1992-1993); "The American Creed" (1994-1995); "Fear
and Terror" (1994-1995); and "September Song" (1996-1997). "Fear
and Terror" is also included in Representative American Speeches
1937-1997 (Wilson & Co., 1997). Dr. Church's 1988 interview
with Bill Moyers is included in A World of Ideas (Doubleday,
1989).
Dr.
Church is also a member of the Executive Board of the Franklin
and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute. He recently retired as Chair
of the Council on the Environment of New York City after ten
years of service (appointed by Mayors Giuliani and Bloomberg)
overseeing, among other programs, New York's 50 Greenmarkets.
He
is married to Carolyn Buck Luce and has four children, Frank
(29),
Nina (26), Jacob (23), and Nathan (21).
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