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Riding the CTA

Published: Jan. 22, 2017, 6 p.m.

Sermon delivered by Rev. Mark Morrison-Reed on January 22, 2017.\xa0Rev. Morrison-Reed shares a reflection on riding the Green Line as a youth from Chicago's\xa0south side in the 60s, as a seminarian, and now as a retired minister\u2014and his awareness of the function of the church and our larger need for community.

Mark 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\xa0Black Pioneers in a White Denomination, Darkening the Doorways: Black Trailblazers and Missed Opportunities in Unitarian Universalism\xa0and\xa0The Selma Awakening: How the Civil Rights Movement Tested and Changed Unitarian Universalism.\xa0Mark also wrote the curriculum "How Open the Door? The African-American Experience in Unitarian Universalism" and the book\xa0In 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.

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

The theme for January\xa0is what it means to be a community of prophecy.\xa0To read about our\xa0theme-based ministry, please visit\xa0http://www.unitytemple.org/faith-development/soul-connections\xa0on our website.