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October 25, 2007

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Dr. Forrest Church, of All Souls Church, talks about the nature of religious politics. Author Lucy Hawking says she wants to give young people an idea about physics and how the Earth fits into the solar system.


Forrest Church

Forrest Church

Forrest Church

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Dr. Forrest Church has served almost three decades at Manhattan's All Souls Church, as senior minister and now Minister of Public Theology. He also served as a visiting professor at Dartmouth College and was appointed by Mayor Giuliani as chair of New York City's Council on the Environment. Church has written or edited 23 books on history and faith. In his latest, So Help Me God, he addresses the volatile nature of religious politics. Church holds a Ph.D. from Harvard in early church history.


 

Lucy Hawking

Lucy Hawking

Lucy Hawking

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Lucy Hawking has written for several publications, including New York magazine, the London Evening Standard and London's Daily Mail. She's also a novelist and has collaborated with her famous father, physicist Stephen Hawking, on George's Secret Key to the Universe—the first of a trilogy of children's books. Hawking read French and Russian at Oxford and has had two previous novels published. She's also an administrative staff member of the Autism Research Centre at the University of Cambridge.