Forrest
in the News:
February
19th: President Bill Clinton Receives
First Forrest Church Humanitarian Award
At
their charitable auction at Christies on
February 19, the Heart and Soul Fund, Inc. presented
President Bill Clinton with the first annual Forrest Church
Humanitarian Award. President Clinton also gave the
major address before the live auction, the proceeds for
which support All Souls' outreach efforts and other worthy
social outreach programs in New York City. Read more
Forrest
on NPR's Diane Rehm Show
Listen
to Forrest's interview with Diane Rehm from Monday, December
22 on NPR's Diane
Rehm show.
Forrest
on NPR's Fresh Air
Listen
to Forrest's October 27th interview
with Terry Gross.
Forrest
on the Channel 11 Morning News
Watch
Forrest's October 24th appearance.
Forrest
on PBS's Religion and Ethics Newsweekly
Watch
Forrest's October 5th appearance on PBS' Religion
and Ethics Newsweekly. You can also read the full
interview with Bob Abernathy.
Forrest
in the
New York Times
Read
the article
about Forrest in the New York Times: His Death Postponed,
a Minister Repeats his Farewell Sermon.
Available
from Beacon Press:
 Forrest
Church's highly praised new book,
Love and Death
Learn
more in this short video
"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."
"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."
"This
beautiful book by a matchless preacher, poet, and author
is Forrest Church in his finest hour."
"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
Order
from Amazon.com
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.
June
2008:
Forrest Church at UUA General Assembly
Forrest
receives UUA Distinguished Service Award
read
award citation read
Forrest's response
Major
address on "Love and Death" read
here
Sermon
on "Security, Liberty, and Freedom from Fear"
read
here
Forrest
Church Receives
Roosevelt Four Freedoms Award
Read
the article at UUA.org.
Read
the citation.
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