A sampling of presentations enjoyed by Prairie members at Sunday services in past years (most recent at the top) are available through the links below. For the many services with online audio recordings of speaker's remarks but no transcripts, see our Archive of Past Audio Recordings page. Full service digital recordings from 2010 to the present are available on request emailed to archives@uuprairie.org.

• December 1, 2024 - "CCL's Strategy for Legislative Success" slides provided by Ken Skog  

• March 3, 2024 - "International Religious Connections and Organizations" PowerPoint slides provided by Nick Schweitzer   Hear

• January 28, 2024 - "Searching for a Bird and Finding the Interdependent Web" PowerPoint slides provided by Anne Pryor   Hear

• July 16, 2023 - "The Last Freie Gemeinde: The Free Congregation of Sauk Count" PowerPoint slides provided by Nick Schweitzer   Hear

• April 23, 2023 - "Federal Funding Makes Clean Energy More Affordable for All" PowerPoint slides provided by Kathy Kuntz   Hear

• June 19, 2022 - "Laura M. Towne: Unitarian Abolitionist & Co-Founder of The Penn Center" PowerPoint slides provided by Anne Pryor   Hear

• July 18, 2021 - "Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America - Madison" PowerPoint slides provided by Gwyneth Hughes

• December 6, 2020 - "Addressing Bias in Healthcare" PowerPoint slides provided by Naomi Takahashi

• October 25, 2020 - "What is Nehemiah & Focused Interruption Coalition" PowerPoint slides provided by Anthony Cooper

• October 18, 2020 - "Chameleons in Camouflage: Females on the Autism Spectrum" PowerPoint slides

• August 30, 2020 - Exploring Equity Choiceboard provided by Holly Tellander

• November 24, 2019 - Grief and Self-Care - links to slides and resource lists provided by Deanna Rymaszewski   Hear (22 MB mp3)

• November 17, 2019 - Through the Looking Glass: Affirming and Living Our Values in a Dominance-Obsessed World - links to PowerPoint slides and other resources provided by Jennifer Parker   Hear (22 MB mp3)

• September 15 & 22, 2019 - Misinformation Resources 9/15 & 9/22 compiled by Renee Deschard

• April 29, 2018 - "Louisa May Alcott"

• January 22, 2017 - “Do you know the Sources?” Dawn Hayslett  

• April 12, 2015 - “This We Beilieve - what?” slide show, RE High School class  

• February 15, 2015 - “Our Place in the Cosmos” slide show, John Wunderlin   Hear (55 MB mp3)

• May 18, 2014 - “The Secret Life of Julia Ward Howe,” Robin Proud   Hear (39 MB mp3)

• February 16, 2014 - “People, Places or Things that Inspire Awe,” Kathy and Mei Lien Converse

• October 20, 2013 - “Lydia Maria Child,” Robin Proud   Hear (54 MB mp3)

• September 16, 2012 - “Michael Servetus: Unitarian Martyr,” Barbara Park   Hear (32 MB mp3)

• June 17, 2012 - “Putting Your Faith in Action,” summary of talking points, Bob Park   Hear (mp3)

• February 5, 2012 - “Striving for Sanity in a Crazy World,” Rachel Long

• January 29, 2012 - Slides from “What the United States Can Learn About Improving the Status of Women from Other Countries,” Dr. Myra Marx Ferrer

• January 8, 2012 - “Karen Armstrong's 12 Steps to a Compassionate Life,” Phyllis Long   Hear (46 MB mp3)

• October 9, 2011 - “What Is Mental Illness?,” Rachel Long   Hear (51 MB mp3)

• May 22, 2011 - “Singing the First 100 Years of Universalism,” Barbara Park (unabridged)

• April 3, 2011 - “A Humanist Look at Myth, Symbol, and Art,” Fred Edwords

• August 22, 2010 - “Testing and Teacher Accountability,” Dr. Jim Carpenter

• August 15, 2010 - “To Do Good is My Religion,” Rev. Jane Esbensen

• August 8, 2010 - resource list from “Worth and Dignity of All People: UU's and Arizona Migrants,” Prairie's delegates to GA 2010 in Minneapolis

• July 4, 2010 - “Reclaiming the Flag: What We Love About Our Country,” Mary Mullen

• June 13, 2010 - FAREWELL LITANY For Rev. Ralph Tyksinski, ending his Consulting Ministry

• March 1, 2009 - “This I Believe,”: Phyllis, Rachel

• February 1, 2009 - “Darwin and His 'Dangerous Idea',” Jane R. Shoup   Hear (40 MB mp3)

• December 7, 2008 - “What I Believe,” Marcia

• December 7, 2008 - “This I Believe,” Rick Ruecking

• August 31, 2008 - “The American Worker - From Joe Hill to Joe Walmart,” Steve Blank

• July 27, 2008 - “Music that's Meaningful,” script for joint meeting at Sauk City

• May 4, 2008 - “The Music of What Happens,” Christina Klock

• January 6, 2008 - “This I Believe,” Erin Bosch

• April 8, 2007 - The poems from “A Line of Poetry Strays Into Memory,” Mary Mullen and Anne Lundin

• March 25, 2007 - “Molly Ivins, A Heroine of Our Time,” Paula Pachciarz

• Feb. 7, 2007 (Wed.) - Dave Zakem talk and slides of Laos, with Asian craft items sale; Laos photos

• August 20, 2006 - “Making Memorial Services Meaningful,” Mary Mullen, Erin Bosch, and Sonya

• July 2, 2006 - “Oscar Howe, Artist of the Sioux and the Painting of the Truth,” Rosemarie Lester Slides

• April 16, 2006 - “The Wilderness Requirement for Change: Easter, Passover and the State of the Congregation,” the Rev. Jody Whelden

• February 5, 2006 - flipcharts from “God's Shadow: The Archetypes of Antichrist and Apocalypse,” Steve Vorass (audio tape available)

• December 11, 2005 - “Lighting Our Lives with Hope - The Christmas Message,” the Rev. Jody Whelden

• December 4, 2005 - “Jesus and Empire,” Bob Reuschlein

• November 20, 2005 - “Our Blessings: Apparent Or Not,” the Rev. Jody Whelden

• October 16, 2005 - “The Language and Practice of Reverence,” the Rev. Jody Whelden

• October 9, 2005 - “Gaylord Nelson: Not a Unitarian Universalist, But...,” Mary Mullen

• August 21, 2005 - “Citizenship, Politics, and Liberal Religion,” the Rev. Jody Whelden

• December 12, 2004 - “What Can We Learn from the Jesus Myth?” Warren Hagstrom

• October 3, 2004 - “Church/State Issues 2004,” Leona Balek

• September 26, 2004 - “Coming Together,” the Rev. Sarah Oelberg

• July 18, 2004 - “Pledging Allegiance,” the Rev. Sarah Oelberg

• April 4, 2004 - “Reasonable Religion,” the Rev. Sarah Oelberg

• December 14, 2003 - “Mozart: Life and Music” Warren Hagstrom

• April 28, 2002 - “Cole Porter's Life and Music” Warren Hagstrom

• December 2, 2001 - “Our Personal Encounters with Christianity” Warren Hagstrom

• November 4, 2001 - “Creativity and the Arts - Photography,” Jean Matos, Photos by Dick Bonser

• October 14,2001 - “Creativity and the Arts - Painting, Drawing and Printmaking,” Jean Matos, Photos by Dick Bonser

• September 23, 2001 - “Creativity and the Arts - Three-Dimentional Art,” Jean Matos, Photos by Dick Bonser

• September 9, 2001 - “Creativity and the Arts - Textile Arts,” Jean Matos, Photos by Dick Bonser

• December 10, 2000 - “J. S. Bach - 250th anniversary celebration (a musical biography)” Warren Hagstrom

• November 19, 2000 - “Ruminations on Religions as Rackets” Warren Hagstrom

• September 3, 2000 - “Experiencing Prairie,” Erin Bosch and Mary Mullen

• June 11, 2000 - “The War on Drugs” Warren Hagstrom

• March 26, 2000 - “Emily Dickinson: Musical Settings of her Poems” Warren Hagstrom

• March 19, 2000 - “Richard Feynman: A Curious Character” Warren Hagstrom

• February 20, 2000 - “The Trickster” Warren Hagstrom

• January 16, 2000 - “Our Korean Friends” Warren Hagstrom

• November 21, 1999 - “Conspicuous Consumption” Warren Hagstrom

• May 9, 1999 - “Franz Liszt: A Really Romantic Composer” Warren Hagstrom

• November 9, 1997 - “Culinary Rituals"” Warren Hagstrom

• March 17, 1996 - “Mendelssohn” Warren Hagstrom

• April 30, 1995 - “Strike Up the Band! The Life and Music of George Gershwin (1898-1937)” Warren Hagstrom

• October 9, 1994 - “Everyday Morality 111: Vicious Circles of Deviance” Warren Hagstrom

• September 18, 1994 - “Everyday Morality: Embarrassment, Poise and Tact” Warren Hagstrom

• September 11, 1994 - “Everyday Morality: Misrepresentation” Warren Hagstrom

• March 15, 1992 - “Mayan Art and Culture, Past and Present,” Dave Zakem Belize photos

• Noverber 10, 1991 - “In Celebration of the Life and Music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)” Warren Hagstrom

• September 22, 1991 - “Spirituality and its Antithesis” Warren Hagstrom

• August 25, 1991 - “Celebrating Our German Free Thought Heritage” Warren Hagstrom

• June 30, 1991 - “Selected Dreams” Warren Hagstrom

• Noverber 19, 1989 - “U-U's and Other Denominations - Are We Still All that Different?” Warren Hagstrom

• Noverber 5, 1989 - “The Politics of Original Sin” Warren Hagstrom

• October 29, 1989 - “The Devil is the Spirit of Gravity-Through Him All Things Fall” Warren Hagstrom

• October 1, 1989 - “Bible Stories-Good, Bad, and Awful” Warren Hagstrom

• September 17, 1989 - “Can a U-U Be a Christian?” Warren Hagstrom

• September 10, 1989 - “Does Religion Have Any Redeeming Value?” Warren Hagstrom

• February 26, 1989 - “Can a Secular Humanist Love Cats?” Warren Hagstrom

• March 22, 1987 - “George Frideric Handel: In Celebration of 303 Years of His Life and Music,” Warren Hagstrom

• September 11, 1977 - “Ho Chi Minh confronts Woodrow Wilson,” David Carson

• October 4, 1970 - “Little Armored Men,” David Meyer