Gary A. Kowalski

Who is Gary A. Kowalski?

Gary A. Kowalski is an American author noted for his books on eco-spirituality, science, history, and animals. He is the author of eight books including The Souls of Animals, Science and the Search for God, Goodbye Friend: Healing Wisdom For Anyone Who Has Ever Lost A Pet, Blessings of the Animals: Celebrating Our Kinship With All Creation and The Bible According To Noah: Theology As If Animals Mattered, Earth Day, and Green Mountain Spring and Other Leaps of Faith, both from Skinner House Books.

In his 2008 volume Revolutionary Spirits: The Enlightened Faith of America's Founding Fathers, Kowalski sought to show that the Founding Fatherss of the United States were neither devout Christians nor secularists but that their views combined religion with the new scientific and intellectual discoveries of the Enlightenment.

A graduate of Harvard College and the Harvard Divinity School, Kowalski was the senior minister of Burlington's First Unitarian Universalist Society for over 20 years. While there, he performed about 25 marriage ceremonies each year, including same-sex marriages because Kowalski said that the church should support all long-term, mutually committed relationships.