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Dr. Church, who is 53 years old, has written or
edited 19 books, including: Father and Son:, A Personal Biography of Senator
Frank Church of Idaho (Harper and Row, 1985); The Devil and Dr. Church,
Entertaining Angels and Seven Deadly Virtues (Harper and Row, 1986, 1987, and
1988, respectively); Our Chosen Faith: An Introduction to
Unitarian/Universalism (Beacon, 1989) with John Buehrens; and God and Other
Famous Liberals: Recapturing Bible, Flag and Family From the Far Right (Simon
and Schuster, 1992; Walker, 1996). More recently he has published Life Lines:
Holding On and Letting Go (Beacon Press, 1996), both a new edition and a
Spanish translation of Our Chosen Faith entitled, respectively, A Chosen Faith
and La Fe Que Hemos Escogido (translated by Ervin Barrios) (Beacon, 1998); and,
Lifecraft: The Art of Meaning, (Beacon, 2000), Bringing God Home: A Travelers
Guide will be published in March 2002 by St. Martin's Press, who will publish
The American Creed: Union of Faith and Freedom in October 2002. He is editor of Restoring Faith: America's Religious Leaders Answer Terror With Hope, (Walker 2001); He is also editor of The Essential Tillich (Macmillan, 1987, University of Chicago, 1999); translator of Matthias Stehle's Greek Word Building (Scholars,1978); and co-editor of Continuity and Discontinuity in Church History (Brill, 1979); The Macmillan Book of Earliest Christian Prayers (1988); The Macmillan Book of Earliest Christian Hymns (1988); The Macmillan Book of Earliest Christian Meditations (1989); One Prayer At a Time (Collier,1989); and a new edition of Thomas Jefferson's Bible (Beacon, 2001). No Apologies: Collected Meditations on Liberal Religion by A. Powell Davies (Skinner House) was published in 1998. For two years (1987-88), Dr. Church wrote a weekly column for the Chicago Tribune; fifty of these columns are collected in Everyday Miracles: Stories From Life (Harper and Row, 1988). He has also written weekly op-ed columns for The New York Post. Dr. Church served two terms at Dartmouth College as Montgommery Fellow and visiting professor (spring/summer 1989). Nine of his addresses have been selected for inclusion in the annual anthology Representative American Speeches (Wilson & Co.): "Love and Death" (1983-1984); "Terrorism" (1986-1987); "Chariots of Fire" (1987- 1988); "If I Were A Woman" (1989-1990); "Shall We Overcome?" (1992-1993); "The American Creed" (1994- 1995); "Fear and Terror" (1994-1995); "September Song" (1996-1997); and "In The Wake of Terror" (2001-02). "Fear and Terror" is also included in Representative American Speeches 1937-1997 (Wilson & Co., 1997); Dr. Church's 1988 interview with Bill Moyers is included in A World of Ideas (Doubleday, 1989). He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute. In November, 1995, Mayor Giuliani appointed him Chairman of the Council on the Environment of New York City, a position he has held for the past seven years. He is married to Carolyn Buck Luce and has four children, Frank, Nina, Jacob, and Nathan. |
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