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DOWNLOAD the morning program: https://redriveruu.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/TMP-11-30.pdf What is my Duty? – To whom do we owe obligations? What is the difference between direct and indirect duties? Do we have duties to non-human life? To future generations? To people we don’t even know? Should we do our duty no matter what the consequences may be? Join us online … Continue reading “What Is My Duty?”
the Rev. Dr. Mark Y.A. Davies, speaking Soil degradation is not on too many people’s radar screen, much less high on their list of most pressing ecological problems facing our world today, but that being said, soil degradation is still one of the most significant ecological challenges of the 21st Century whether we recognize it … Continue reading “The Land Ethic and the Importance of Soil”
Join us Sunday @ 11:15 on our YouTube Channel or our Facebook page Here’s a 1 minute sneak peek from Dr. Davies regarding his upcoming remarks. Direct link to the morning assembly To what extent is religion a force for good in the world and why does it so often seem to be used in ways that contribute to so … Continue reading Is Religion Good?
Join us on Sunday @ 11:15 on either our Facebook Page or our YouTube Channel “Loving Persons We Don’t Like” – in a society that is increasingly divided, where vitriol seems to find its way into every room of our shared world house, what does it mean to love one another when we do not … Continue reading “Loving Persons We Don’t Like”
Watch this morning assembly here In developing the myth of American Exceptionalism, our society has not fully come to terms with the most problematic aspects of our history – systemic racism and the genocide of our indigenous siblings. What might we learn from other societies that have more thoroughly confronted and repented from the … Continue reading “Truth and Reconciliation”
Watch this morning assembly here THE MORNING PROGRAM IS BELOW Food Justice in a Global Pandemic is an exploration of issues of food insecurity and food access during the global pandemic and what local communities can do to help the most vulnerable. The Rev. Dr. Mark Davies is the Oklahoma State Humanities Scholar for the … Continue reading Food Justice in a Global Pandemic
Join us at 11:15 am on our YouTube channel (redriveruu) all one word THE MORNING PROGRAM IS BELOW Sometimes thinking in terms of moral absolutes overlooks the complex and often conflicting choices, values, obligations, and principles that we face in the process of moral decision making. What are some effective ways to determine the most … Continue reading “Contextual Ethics: What is the fitting to do?”
Streaming @ 11:15 am on our YouTube channel How can communities find ways to be closer in spirit in the midst of our physical distance? What can we learn from communities throughout history and around the world that have found ways to stay in relationship and find resilience in times of extreme challenge and difficulty? … Continue reading “Creative, Intentional, and Resilient Community” – Streaming on our YouTube Channel
This talk will explore one of the most significant philosophical correspondences of the 20th Century comprised of a sustained 23 year dialogue (1922-1945) between UU philosopher Charles Hartshorne and Methodist philosopher Edgar S. Brightman. Hartshorne was one of the leading proponents of process philosophy, and Brightman was the most prominent Boston personalist philosopher of his … Continue reading The Hartshorne/Brightman Correspondence: A Unitarian Universalist Philosopher and Methodist Philosopher in Dialogue
A closer look at what it means to be persons-in-community and how awareness of this reality changes our self-understanding and sense of responsibility for the world around us. Dr. Davies has, for the last 23 years, been the Wimberly Professor of Social and Ecological Ethics at Oklahoma City University and Founding Director of the World … Continue reading Communitarian Personalism
Rev. Dr. Mark Y. A. Davies is the Wimberly Professor of Social and Ecological Ethics, Director of the World House Institute for Social and Ecological Responsibility, and Executive Director of the Leadership. Education, and Development Hub North America for the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry) at Oklahoma City University where he has worked in both teaching and administration for 22 years. He is an ordained elder in the Oklahoma Conference of the United Methodist Church where he has served as Chair of the Board of Church and Society from 2015 to 2018.