Michael Goldberg

Michael Goldberg is a nationally-acclaimed writer and speaker. He has held two university chairs in religious studies, worked with an international strategic management consulting firm, served as a professional ethicist with the Georgia Supreme Court as well as with various hospital ethics committees, additionally providing support to gravely ill patients and their loved ones as an ICU and hospice chaplain.

An ordained rabbi, Goldberg is the author of several books, one of which, "Jews and Christians, Getting Our Stories Straight," was the subject of a feature article in The New York Times, and another of which, "Why Should Jews Survive?," attracted front-page attention from The Washington Post's Sunday Book Review section. Goldberg has also been much in demand as a speaker on medical, legal, and business ethics, having been invited to such institutions as Wake Forest, Harvard, and Notre Dame as well as to Yale, Duke, and Northwestern. Along the way, he has also addressed lay audiences in settings that have included, among others, the Hadassah Pacific Coast Convention and the Detroit Jewish Book Fair, North America's largest.

Goldberg completed his undergraduate studies in philosophy at Yale, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa. Following his ordination, he received his Ph.D. in systematic theology and philosophy of religion from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California.