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 defines his Universalist theology simply:
• “Religion is our human response to the dual reality of being alive and knowing we must die.”
• “The purpose of life is to live in such a way that our lives will prove worth dying for.”
• “The only thing that can never be taken from us, even by death, is the love we give away before we go.”
His mantra for living well is:
“Want what you have; do what you can; and be who you are.”
Dr.
Church, who is 60 years old, has written or edited 25 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). He focused
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). Beacon Press released Love and Death—My Journey Through the Valley of the Shadow in June of 2008. In Fall, 2009, Beacon will publish his new book, The Cathedral of the World: a Universalist Theology.
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