Forrest Church

I won't soon forget Forrest Church, his acceptance speech on receiving an award for service to Unitarian Universalism was so impressive that I very much regretted missing his lecture at GA. I will read his books.

William Sinkford called him "the most widely heard Unitarian Universalist voice of his generation" both has a parish minister and theologian. All Souls Church of New York has given him the designation Minister of Public Theology.

Sinkford's and Church's talks also acknowledged that this is Church's last GA. After battling cancer for some time Church received the news that it was terminal. Soon after this news he composed a book called "Love and Death"--a sum of his sermons over the years, or, as he jokes in the video below "the one great sermon every minister has in 'em."

The way Church approaches his death, lives this part of his life, shows the presence of grace, I believe. Not grace delivered from God-on-high, perhaps, but a grace cultivated by Church himself. I'm interested to find out how he did that.

I found some videos of Church's sermons on UU TV, a great website.

For the librarians who look him up, his catalog name is F. Forrester Church.