Sermon delivered by Rev. Mark Morrison-Reed on January 6, 2013. Mark Morrison-Reed grew up in Chicago where his family attended the First Unitarian Society and he sang in the Chicago Children's Choir. He co-ministered with his wife Donna for 26 years in Rochester N.Y. and Toronto, Ontario. While serving the latter congregation he was also president of the Canadian Unitarian Council. He's currently an affiliated faculty member at the Meadville Lombard Theological School. A historian of the African American experience in UUism, he is the author of Darkening the Doorways: Black Trailblazers and Missed Opportunities in Unitarian Universalism.

Rev. Morrison-Reed can be contacted at [email protected].