Forrest Church

Forrest Church

The Rev. Dr. F. Forrester Church (1948–2009) served the Unitarian Church of All Souls in New York City as senior minister from 1978 to 2007 and as minister of public theology from 2007 until his death in September 2009. A frequent contributor to UU World, he was the author many books, including So Help Me God: The Founding Fathers and the First Great Battle Over Church and State (2007), Love and Death: My Journey through the Valley of the Shadow (2008), and The Cathedral of the World: A Universalist Theology (2009).

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By Forrest Church

  • The cathedral of the world
    Forrest Church
    A twenty-first-century theology, based on the concept of one light and many windows.
  • Love and death
    Forrest Church

    Facing cancer with lessons learned from my parishioners.

  • America’s founding faiths
    Forrest Church

    The separation of church and state in America grew out of competing visions of divine order and sacred liberty that divided the nation’s founders and its religious communities.

  • What would Jefferson and Adams do?
    Forrest Church
    What two Unitarian U.S. presidents would think of contemporary religious politics.
  • Incendiary speech
    Forrest Church
    In the 'cartoon controversy,' principles of free speech and mutual respect collide.
  • Resetting the worry alarm
    Forrest Church
    Fear is more likely to move trouble from one burner to another than to turn down the flame.
  • Emerson’s shadow
    Forrest Church

    There’s a shadow side to Emerson’s influence on Unitarian Universalism.

  • We need more patriots
    Forrest Church
    Nationalism threatens the true meaning of American patriotism.
  • Universalism: A theology for the 21st century
    Forrest Church
    Taken seriously, no theology is more challenging morally, spiritually, or intellectually.

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