Mark D. Morrison-Reed

Andrew J. Young was for a while a United Church of Christ minister. He also worked with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in the non-violent movement. He and his wife, Jean, were assigned to the National Council of Churches in New York City. Source: www.achievement.org Young said of this work, "'I am a black-born, Unitarian-bred minister of the liberal faith. I am an anomaly. My allegiance is split." So begins Mark Morrison-Reed's frank and revealing account of how blacks experience religion in show more America's white churches. Through the stories of two pioneering black ministers--Egbert Brown, founder of the first Unitarian Church in Harlem, and Lewis A. McGee, who started the Interracial Free Religious Fellowship in Chicago's black ghetto--the Reverend Morrison-Reed provides insight into the disturbing and widespread problem of racism in religion.
"His message speaks to all blacks and whites who seek equity, justice, and harmony in this nation. Morrison-Reed speaks powerfully to the issues of both classism and racism, which to some degree effect every church or temple in America. This book is well indexed." show less

Mark D. Morrison-Reed, the preeminent scholar of black Unitarian Universalist history, presents this chronicle and analysis of the events of the Empowerment Controversy, which rocked Unitarian Universalism in the late sixties and continues to reverberate. It was a time of revolution, of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. Like the country, the young Unitarian Universalist Association was forced to reckon with demands for change and found itself fractured by conflict about the show more implications of a commitment to racial justice." - from book cover. show less

About the editors, from the back cover: "Mark Morrison-Reed is the author of 'Black Pioneers in a White Denomination', Jacqui James serves the UUA as Director of Worship Resources." About the book, from the back cover: "[The book] resonates with the spirited voices of 29 African Americans." There are sections titled, "The Black Experience", "Seeds of Change" and "The Dreamer and the Dream." It contains short biographies of the contributors, an introduction by the co-editors, and a list of UU show more meditation manuals. show less

Meditation Manual 1991