97-year-old Social Activist Shares Heretical Musings

Online, March 10, 2014 (Newswire.com) - Over his career, Rev. Wheelwright delivered many hundreds of sermons. This collection represents but a fraction, but they are representative of his style and courage in speaking out about issues that merge social, political, and ethical subjects reflecting the principles of Unitarian Universalism. He directly addresses and makes conclusions on big topics, including the duty to better ourselves and thus the world, the underlying meaning of the life of his friend, the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., how humanists talk about and view God, and even draws on his own life, a warning against the love of memories.

At age 97, self-proclaimed atheist, Rev. Farley W. Wheelwright is the second-oldest retired Unitarian Universalist minister. Over a career of nearly five decades, he is best known to the public as a social activist who gained sometimes noisy public attention in the '60s and '70s as a leader in the Civil Rights movement (marching beside the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.), the abortion rights and the Vietnam antiwar movements. Dr. King was assassinated a week before he was to have delivered Farley's installation address at the UU Church in New Bedford, Mass.For all the notoriety, however, Farley valued his career as a pastoral minister above all else. "When I think of an afternoon spent supporting a grieving mother because of the crib death of her two-month-old baby, my participation in the social activist movement seems almost inconsequential," he says. "It was the most exalted job I could possibly conceive of for myself and my talents."

Farley lives in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. He reads voraciously with the help, due to blindness from macular degeneration, of readers, assistants, and talking books. He is still active in the local UU Fellowship, a philosophy club, various discussion groups, and serves on the Board of Directors for the local school for the deaf.

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TWICE-TOLD TALES, A Collection of 21 Sermons by Rev. Dr. Farley W. Wheelwright
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