Recent Services
Below are recent service topics and recordings of the presentation part of the service.
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"Healing Communities through Kinship" by Mary Sue Reutebuch
Mar 2, 2025 • 23:12
Mary Sue Reutebuch will share the inspiring work of Greg Boyle. In 1992, as a response to the civil unrest in Los Angeles, Boyle launched Homeboy Industries to create an…
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"Engaging Our Theological Diversity" by Avalon Haykus
Feb 23, 2025 • 21:29
Today’s talk is based upon a report published in 2005 by the UUA’s Commission on Appraisal, charged with “acting independently… to provoke deep reflection, energizing and revitalizing Unitarian Universalism.” In…
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"Exploring Love Languages" by Mary Sue Reutebuch
Feb 16, 2025 • 19:35
Although there are many “love languages”, Mary Sue Reutebuch will look at the five outlined by the counselor Dr. Gary Chapman in his book, The Five Love Languages. By exploring how…
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"Martin Luther King, Jr. , an Unwelcome Prophet" by Rev. Ralph Tyksinski
Jan 19, 2025 • 25:12
Martin Luther King Jr, whose half-century of martyrdom we celebrate on Jan 20th, died with a public disapproval rating of nearly 75%, far greater than Donald Trump’s disapproval rating, today. …
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"Still Climbing the Justice Mountain: Lessons Not Yet Learned From MLK" by Mary Sue Reutebuch
Jan 12, 2025 • 19:34
We “honor” Dr. Martin Luther King each January with a national holiday. Perhaps it is easier to put up a monument or have an honorary day on the calendar than…
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"Embracing the Wealth of Our Religious Roots" by Avalon Haykus
Dec 8, 2024 • 16:10
As the holidays associated with the winter solstice near, we may feel torn between recreating the pleasant experiences of childhood and rejecting the religious dogma upon which they were founded.…
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"Citizens’ Climate Lobby’s Strategy for Legislative Success" by Ken Skog
Dec 1, 2024 • 27:00
The Citizens’ Climate Lobby (CCL) is a grassroots organization with over 200,000 members across more than 420 U.S. chapters, representing nearly every congressional district. Its overall goal is to Build…
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"A House Divided – Whither Thou Goest?" by Rev. Ralph Tyksinski
Nov 17, 2024 • 21:17
A reflection on our nation’s division in 1864 and 2024. Where are we and where are we going as a nation? We also explore grief and grieving that may have…
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"Active Hope: A Post-election Journey" by Mary Sue Reutebuch
Nov 10, 2024 • 19:44
Hope is not a vague feeling that things will “just work out,” because history tells us that life rarely goes that way. Rather, hope is a verb, more than a…
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"Decolonizing Spirituality" by Nandi (Sunita) Nandihalli (sponsored by Badgertalks)
Nov 3, 2024 • 23:39
This talk will focus on addressing the ways that Western dominant religions have been mechanisms of colonialism, empire, and oppression. This work aims to center “folks who have been wounded…
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"Don’t Light a Candle and Don’t Curse the Darkness" by Rev. Dr. Michael A. Schuler
Oct 13, 2024 • 27:16
One can understand the antipathy sufferers from Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) feel toward darkness, their sense of dread as winter approaches. But in general, darkness gets a bad rap in…
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"Autumnal Lessons Through Poets’ Eyes" by Rev. Ralph Tyksinski
Oct 6, 2024 • 20:12
We share poems by Keats, MacLeish, Thomas, Frost, and others, to explore and discover multiple meanings to be found in the Fall season.
Public audio recordings from 1984 to the present may be found on the Archive of Past Audio Recordings maintained by the Archives Committee. That committee also maintains the podcast listing page, with recordings primarily from 2012 to the present. Full-service recordings are available to members on request to archives@uuprairie.org.