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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.