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Unitarian Universalism and the Story of Forrest Church

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Forrest Church’s initial interest in religion was mainly geared toward avoiding the draft as a conscientious objector. But what began as a dodge became a calling that was as much intellectual as religious, and resulted in a theology based on a belief in communal responsibility. In Dan Cryer’s Being Alive and Having to Die: The Spiritual Odyssey of Forrest Church, we learn that the Unitarian Universalist minister was hardly a paragon of old-fashioned virtue. Yet he urged parishioners to believe in compassion, love and service, and then practiced what he preached.