I am particularly saddened by the death of my long-time friend, Forrest Church, and moved to speak on this occasion, because I had hoped he might speak at mine….

Rev. Forrest Church, acclaimed author of more than two dozen books and longtime minister of the Unitarian Church of All Souls in New York City, died on September 24, 2009, following a three-year battle with esophageal cancer. He was sixty-one years old. Church is survived by his children, Frank,…