Rev. Russ Menk and Worship Associate Lauren Keenan

Ralph Waldo Emerson (a Unitarian minister) probably gave the finest 19th-century defense of the ideal of individualism. Emerson promoted non-compliance to authority if it went against your own life’s path. But isn’t a freedom to disregard authority/law at the core of our country’s current crisis? Are Emerson’s thoughts constructive today? Where are the limits of your personal freedoms versus the community’s collective good?