Galen Guengerich is Senior Minister of All Souls Unitarian Church, an historic congregation located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. He is the tenth person to hold this position in the congregation’s 193-year history. His last name is pronounced GING (rhymes with “sing”) -rich.

He was educated at Franklin and Marshall College (BA, 1982), Princeton Theological Seminary (MDiv, 1985) and the University of Chicago (PhD, 2004). His doctoral dissertation is titled Comprehensive Commitments and the Public World: Tillich, Rawls and Whitehead on the Nature of Justice.

He is author of the forthcoming book God Revised: How Religion Must Evolve in a Scientific Age (Palgrave Macmillan, May 2013) and writes a regular column on “The Search for Meaning” for psychologytoday.com.

His sermon at All Souls on Sept. 16, 2001—the Sunday after 9/11—was selected for inclusion in Representative American Speeches 2001-2002. Titled “The Shaking of the Foundations,” the sermon appears along with speeches by Governor George Pataki, President George Bush and Mayor Rudolph Giuliani as one of seven “Responses to September 11th.”

He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He serves on the Board of Directors of Interfaith Alliance, the national non-partisan advocacy voice for faith and freedom; he served as chair of the Interfaith Alliance board from 2008-2012.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.

He lives in Manhattan with his wife, Holly G. Atkinson, MD; his daughter Zoë is a student at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.