Reflections on our Shared Values: Pluralism.
This Sunday, the second in a series of discourses on the recently adopted Shared Values of the UUA , Mark Davies take look at the shared value of Pluralism.
The Rev Mark Y. A. Davies, leading.
You may download the morning program – later in the week – here or read it below without having to download it.
Background information:
Unitarian Universalist Association bylaws mandate that Article II be reviewed every fifteen years. It has been revised numerous times over the history of the UUA. The last wholesale revision before this year happened in 1987.
About our visiting minister:
Blog: www.oneworldhouse.net
Dr. Mark Y. A. Davies is the Wimberly Professor of Social and Ecological Ethics and Director of the World House Institute for Social and Ecological Responsibility at Oklahoma City University. From 2009 to 2015, Dr. Davies was dean of the Petree College of Arts and Sciences and Wimberly Professor of Social Ethics at Oklahoma City University. Previously, Dr. Davies was dean of the Wimberly School of Religion at Oklahoma City University and Founding Director of the Vivian Wimberly Center for Ethics and Servant Leadership. Prior to becoming dean of the Wimberly School of Religion in 2002, he was associate dean of the Petree College of Arts and Sciences at Oklahoma City University and chair of the department of philosophy.
Dr. Davies has published in the areas of Boston personalism, process philosophy and ethics, and ecological ethics. He serves on the United Methodist University Senate, which is “an elected body of professionals in higher education created by the General Conference to determine which schools, colleges, universities, and theological schools meet the criteria for listing as institutions affiliated with The United Methodist Church.” Dr. Davies is currently working on a project with the Interfaith Youth Core, founded by Eboo Patel, assisting United Methodist schools, colleges, and universities to develop and enhance opportunities for interfaith service, dialogue, and cooperation. He and his wife Kristin live in Edmond, OK in the United States, and they have two daughters.
