Rel Davis

Rel Davis is a retired journalist, Unitarian minister, and boat bum. A native of Texas, he became a Southern Baptist minister while still a teenager -- and was banned from preaching in his early 20s (the result of preaching against segregation in Texas.) He edited weekly newspapers in Montana, was reporter on a daily paper (The Missoulian), and later was a public information officer for the government in Washington. To protest the Vietnam war, he resigned his government position, sold his house and moved with wife and small daughter onto the wood motorsailer Hardtack, and sailed off. He settled in South Florida and became minister of the Unitarian Fellowship of South Florida in Hollywood, FL. He retired in 1999 and with his wife, Edith Sloan, served in the Peace Corps in Bulgaria. They now live in Mena, Arkansas.