Per­ry Raphael Rank served as a pul­pit rab­bi for over forty years. He authored A Full-Fig­ured Faith. He is mar­ried to Ellen Rank, an edu­ca­tion­al con­sul­tant and author. He is a father and grand­fa­ther who loves to bar­be­cue, feed birds, and tend to his veg­etable gar­den. He search­es for God in art, sci­ence, Broad­way, and ancient Jew­ish sacred texts.