Rev. Arthur McDavitt's Memorial Day Sermon of 25 May 1931:
Barack Obama and John McCain Aren’t the Only Ones with a Rogue Reverend Problem
A Guest Homily Delivered by
Michael Doyle
Unitarian Universalist Church of Muncie
May 25, 2008

I want to begin to day by thanking three members of our church's 150th anniversary committee who are researching and writing the history of our congregation from the founding of the fellowship that became St. John's Universalist Church in 1859 to the present Unitarian Universalist Church of Muncie. We may well have the largest number of emeriti professors of history of any religious institution in town! One of them, Ray White, discovered the homily that I'm about to read while combing through the file of local newspapers on microfilm looking for articles about our congregation. Another, Sharon Seager, provided me with some background about its author, the Reverend Arthur W. McDavitt, who served our church as minister from 1924 to 1953. Finally, Bea Sousa, also of the Heritage Committee, recognized this homily as worthy of sharing with you today and asked me to read it and make a few remarks to provide some context for Rev. McDavitt's challenging sentiments.

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