Galen J. Guengerich

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Galen J. Guengerich (day/month/year - )

Guengerich, who is the Senior Minister of All Souls Unitarian Church in New York City, was born in (city/state), the son of (mother) and (father).

He attended (high school), then was educated at Franklin and Marshall College (BA, Phi Beta Kappa, 1982), Princeton Theological Seminary (M.Div., graduated first in class, 1985) and The University of Chicago (PhD, 2004). His doctoral dissertation was titled Comprehensive Commitments and the Public World: Tillich, Rawls and Whitehead on the Nature of Justice.

Guengerich is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of The Interfaith Alliance Foundation, the national non-partisan education and advocacy voice for faith and freedom. In addition, he serves on the Advisory Board of Musica Viva of New York, one of Manhattan’s leading chorale ensembles. He also has written books about careers.

His sermon at All Souls on Sept. 16, 2001 - the Sunday after 9/11 - was selected to be included in Representative American Speeches 2001-2002.

He has appeared on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, as well as on The Fox Newschannel programs In Depth and On Religion, and he has been the featured speaker at conferences across the nation. He now regularly appears on a semi-monthly half-hour radio show on WQXR, the radio station of The New York Times.

In the past, Rev. Guengerich has served as Visiting Scholar at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, and on the boards of Dads and Daughters, the national advocacy nonprofit for fathers and daughters; the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, a human rights organization; and the New York City Audubon Society.

Galen Guengerich (pronounced GAIL-en GING -rich) lives in Manhattan with his wife, Holly G. Atkinson, MD, and daughter Zoë, who is fourteen years old.