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June 2008: Forrest Church Receives
Roosevelt Four Freedoms Award

Read the article at UUA.org.
Read the citation.

Coming this summer from Beacon Press:

Forrest Church's highly praised new book,
Love and Death

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"The story of the Rev. Forrest Church of the All Soul's Church in Manhattan is a profile in courage. Not just for his lifelong work helping those less fortunate, but for his perseverance in the face of a fatal illness."

—From Forrest's interview with Richard French
(watch the interview)

"Forrest Church, a deeply spiritual but always practical visionary, is a minister to us all with this moving and instructive book on the lessons of life and death. A lovely, important book."

—Tom Brokaw

"This beautiful book by a matchless preacher, poet, and author is Forrest Church in his finest hour."

—Senator George McGovern

"Truly a gift, one that will echo in my own preaching and teaching, and in my own life as well. Like Moses gazing at the Promised Land he would not enter, Forrest Church blesses us with his eloquence, his faith and mostly his love."

—Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of
When Bad Things Happen to Good People

"Here is one of the great confessional narratives about dying that provides profound insights into meaningful living.  Forrest Church evokes the full gamut of emotions as he probes the meaning of living, dying, and loving.  Nothing in this book is theoretical or inconsequential. At its center is truth that will live forever."

—C. Welton Gaddy, President, Interfaith Alliance

"Forrest Church has written a book that defies the usual adjectives. It is poignant, moving, candid and eloquent; but it is also so much more. Life itself is a mortal illness, a truth Church brings home with a fierce, unnerving clarity; but how few of us face this tragic fact without fear. Love and Death, a meditation on the end of life, is really a book about life—a book that shows us how to love ourselves and others, how to know God, how to live. Like C.S. Lewis and Thomas Merton, Forrest Church has deepened our sense of what it means to be in the world. I read it with inexpressible gratitude."

—James Atlas, author of My Life in the Middle Ages

“Love and Death is transformative.  I was not prepared for the power of this splendid, soaring book.  It totally captured me.”

—Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Author of Creating a Life

"Forrest Church is one of our great prophetic intellectuals and compassionate voices. His poignant and wise words on the two ultimate realities of our journey—love and death— reveal his grand courage and vision."

—Cornel West, author of Race Matters

"A magisterial meditation on mortality.”

—James Lipton, host of Inside the Actors Studio

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Forrest Church's Reflections on Cancer
Sermons and other writings from Fall 2006 to the present

February 3rd, 2008 letter to the congregation of All Souls

Watch Forrest deliver his sermon, Bedside Manners
at All Souls, New York City, via YouTube
from April 6, 2008

Watch Forrest deliver his sermon, Love, Death and Easter
at All Souls, New York City, via YouTube
from March 16, 2008

Watch Forrest deliver his sermon, Love and Death,
at All Souls, Tulsa via YouTube
from February 10, 2008

Bedside Manners, April 6, 2008
Love, Death and Easter
, March 16, 2008
Love and Death
, February 3, 2008
Beating The Odds
, February 18, 2007
Unfinished Business, March 4, 2007

Words to Live By, October 28, 2007

Winter/Spring 2008 Letters to the congregation of All Souls

Winter 2006-2007 Letters to the congregation of All Souls



Articles and Conversations with Forrest Church

Links to a few of Forrest's media appearances from his So Help Me God Book Tour (October 2007).

Read articles about Forrest's previous book, So Help Me God.

 

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Forrest Church on the Tavis Smiley Show
on October 25, 2007—
Watch now

The Role of Religion in American Democracy—Featured in Time Magazine and at Time.com as part of "UU Perspectives" Essays. Read the article at UUA.org here.

 
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Forrest Church's Reflections on Cancer
Sermons and other writings from Fall 2006 to the present

Beating The Odds, February 18, 2007
Unfinished Business, March 4, 2007

Words to Live By, October 28, 2007

Letters to the congregation of All Souls

About

Biography


Interviews


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After thirty years as Senior Minister, Author and Theologian Forrest Church is now Minister of Public Theology of All Souls Church in New York City.
 
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"Religion is our human response to the dual reality of being alive and having to die."


— Forrest Church

 

 

 
 
 

Coming Soon
(Available Now
for Preorder):

Love & Death:
My Journey
through the Valley of the Shadow

from Beacon Press

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Other Featured Books
by Forrest Church

   
 

So Help Me God

from Harcourt Press

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Also available at Barnes & Noble and other booksellers

 
 
 
 

Freedom from Fear

from St. Martin's Press

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Also available at Barnes & Noble and other booksellers

 
 
 
 

Separation of
Church and State

Writings on a Fundamental Freedom by America’s Founders

Forrest Church, editor



from Beacon Press

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