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 Galen
J. Guengerich
Galen Guengerich
is Senior Minister of All Souls Unitarian Church, an historic
congregation located on the Upper
East Side of Manhattan
in New York City. He is the tenth person to hold this position
in the congregation’s 188-year history. His name is pronounced
GAIL-en GING (rhymes with “sing”) -rich.
Rev. Guengerich
was educated at Franklin and Marshall College (BA, Phi Beta
Kappa, 1982), Princeton Theological Seminary (M.Div.,
graduated first in class, 1985) and The University of Chicago
(PhD, 2004). His doctoral dissertation is titled Comprehensive
Commitments and the Public World: Tillich, Rawls and Whitehead
on the Nature of Justice.
He is a
member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves as Chair
of the Board of Directors
of The Interfaith Alliance
Foundation, the national non-partisan education and advocacy
voice for faith and freedom. In addition, he serves on the
Advisory Board of Musica Viva of New York, one of Manhattan’s
leading chorale ensembles.
Rev. Guengerich
is widely acclaimed for his eloquent and thought-provoking
sermons and speeches.
His sermon at All
Souls on Sept. 16,
2001—the
Sunday after 9/11—was selected to be included in
Representative American Speeches 2001-2002. Titled “The
Shaking of the Foundations,” the sermon appears along
with speeches by Governor George Pataki, President George
Bush and Mayor
Rudolph
Giuliani as one of seven “Responses to September
11th.”
He has appeared
on National Public Radio’s
All Things Considered, as well as on The Fox Newschannel
programs In Depth and On Religion,
and he has been the featured speaker at conferences across
the nation. He now regularly appears on Morning Meditation
from All
Souls, a semi-monthly half-hour radio show on WQXR, the
radio station of The New York Times.
In the past,
Rev. Guengerich has served as Visiting Scholar at Union Theological
Seminary in New York City, and on
the boards
of Dads and Daughters, the national advocacy nonprofit
for fathers and daughters; the Unitarian Universalist
Service Committee, a human rights organization; and
the
New York
City Audubon
Society.
He lives
in Manhattan with his wife, Holly G. Atkinson, MD, and daughter
Zoë, who is fourteen years
old. |
