Forrest Church is currently serving his twenty-ninth year as Minister of All Souls Church (Unitarian) in Manhattan. 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 church history (1978).

Dr. Church, who is 58 years old, has written or edited 22 books, including: Father and Son: A Personal Biography of Senator Frank Church of Idaho, The American Creed, The Separation of Church and State, and Thomas Jefferson's Bible. Eight of his addresses have been selected for inclusion in the annual anthology Representative American Speeches. Dr. Church's 1988 interview with Bill Moyers is included in A World of Ideas (Doubleday, 1989).

Dr. Church is a member of the Executive Board of the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute. Mayor Giuliani appointed him Chairman of the Council on the Environment of New York City in 1995—he served for 12 years—where he directed, among other programs, the city’s 44 Greenmarkets