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Crossing the Bridge to Selma

Published: Jan. 10, 2016, 6 p.m.

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Sermon delivered by Rev. Mark Morrison-Reed on January 10, 2016.\\xa0Mark Morrison-Reed\\xa0served\\xa0for 26 years as co-minister with his wife, Donna, in Rochester N.Y. and Toronto, Ontario. He also served as vice-chair of the UUA Commission on Appraisal and the Ministerial Fellowship Committee. A historian of the African American experience in UUism, he is the author of Black Pioneers in a White Denomination, Darkening the Doorways: Black Trailblazers and Missed Opportunities in Unitarian Universalism and The Selma Awakening: How the Civil Rights Movement Tested and Changed Unitarian Universalism. Mark also wrote the curriculum "How Open the Door? The African-American Experience in Unitarian Universalism" and the book In Between: Memoir of an Integration Baby.\\xa0A former\\xa0president of the Canadian Unitarian Council, he\'s currently an affiliated faculty member at the Meadville Lombard Theological School in Chicago.

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Rev. Morrison-Reed can be contacted at\\xa0markmr4@excite.com.

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