Speaker: Rev. David Morris

Locker Room Talk

These words, used to excuse vile language about women during the 2016 election, point to a deep historic conflict of values. It’s not just about how men behave: Throughout human history, worldviews based in domination and in collaboration have been in tension. Today, the contrast between these worldviews are as clear as they have ever … Continue reading Locker Room Talk

Distant Relations: A Dramatic Dialogue Between Margaret Fuller and Ralph Waldo Emerson

Revs. Gaye and David Morris will help us to learn more about the unique friendship between two brilliant but willful leaders of the Transcendentalist movement, Margaret Fuller and Ralph Waldo Emerson. They both enjoyed great success as thinkers, writers, and lecturers. An imagined vignette of their friendship, played out in the Emerson home parlor in … Continue reading Distant Relations: A Dramatic Dialogue Between Margaret Fuller and Ralph Waldo Emerson

Blessings

 The Irish cleric and poet John O’Donohue wrote dozens of blessings for many occasions, and contemporary writer and minister Jan Richardson has done the same. This Sunday we explore some of Rev. David’s favorites from their offerings, and consider: What does it mean to “bless,” or to offer a blessing? How do we “bless the … Continue reading Blessings

The Responsive Universe

Through touch, taste, smell, vision, and hearing, our senses take us out to meet the Universe.  Remarkably, it seems the Universe reaches back toward us The Rev. David Morris is the minister of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Outer Banks in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.  He has served with congregations in California and Virginia.  … Continue reading The Responsive Universe