Peter Morales
| Peter Morales | |
|---|---|
| Born | San Antonio, Texas, U.S. |
| Residence | Boston, Massachusetts |
| Occupation | President, Unitarian Universalist Association |
| Employer | Unitarian Universalist Association |
| Title | Reverend |
| Predecessor | Rev. William G. Sinkford |
| Spouse(s) | Phyllis |
| Website | UUA President's pages |
Peter Morales is the president of the Unitarian Universalist Association, elected in 2009. Morales is the first Latino president. He was formerly the senior minister of the Jefferson Unitarian Church in Jefferson County, Colorado, a rapidly growing Unitarian Universalist congregation in the northwestern Denver-Aurora Metropolitan Area.
Morales was born in San Antonio, Texas. His mother, Oralia López, was of Mexican-American heritage; his father, Peter Morales, was an immigrant from Spain. His initial language was Spanish. As a youth he greatly enjoyed baseball. As a young child, he attended a bilingual Lutheran mission church, which his mother had attended growing up. When Morales was ten, his family later moved to a larger, English speaking congregation. He attended Sunday school and was confirmed there, while learned what he called "fundamentalist doctrine."
On graduation from high school he attended Raymond College at the University of the Pacific in . Active in student government, he studied history and social theory. It was also in college, when learning about "evolution and cultural anthropology and comparative religion," that he ceased to belief in his childhood faith, and left his Lutheran denomination,
Upon graduation in 1967, he married his wife Phyllis and taught school for three years. Faced with the draft during the Vietnam War he immigrated to Revelstoke, British Columbia. There he worked in a lumber mill and as a reporter for a community newspaper. No longer in danger from the draft, he returned to the United States when he was 26 and entered a program in American Studies at the University of Kansas. Following a summer in Mexico studying Spanish, Morales was granted a lectureship in 1976 as a Fulbright lecturer in American literature and American history at the University of Oviedo in Asturias in northern Spain.
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