• Readying to Rise by Rev. Matt Aspin

  As UU’s, we draw from many sources to help us make meaning of the realities we face in the present day. As we collectively emerge from the trials of a…

• Meeting with MOSES by Eugene Crisler ‘El

  Eugene will explain what MOSES (Madison Organizing in Strength, Equity, and Solidarity for Criminal Justice Reform) does, on its own and through its affiliation with the statewide umbrella group WISDOM…

• Healthcare and Homelessness by Matt Julian

  Matt Julian (he/him) is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who works on a social work and nurse street outreach team. He has a history of working with poverty, mental health,…

• Beginner’s Mind by Rev. Matt Aspin

  Zen Buddhism contains a concept known as Shoshin, or “Beginner’s Mind.” In the beginner’s mind, there are many possibilities, but in the experts mind there are few. How might cultivating…

• Reconvening by Rev. Matt Aspin

  As we begin the tentative process of binding back together, let us first pause and take a breath together. And then another. There is grief that needs tending before we…

• E Pluribus Unum by Matt Aspin

  Out of many, one. This concept is foundational to both the stated ideals of our country, and to the covenantal promises of our chosen faith tradition. We profess democracy to…

• The Kids Scare You: And Other Uncomfortable Truths About Education in America by Holly Tellander

  The pandemic has highlighted many long-standing and (not-so) quietly creeping faults in our foundational understandings of what it means to be educated and to educate. Our students, educators, support staff…

• Rediscovered Transcendentalist: Caroline Healey Dall by Robin Proud

  Caroline Healey Dall was a friend and associate of Emerson, the Alcotts, Theodore Parker, Lucy Stone, and Frederick Douglass. She knew everybody in the Transcendentalist, abolitionist, and suffragist circles of…

• Befriending Our Wounds: A Meditation by Lisa Glueck

  Everyone suffers emotional pain. Collectively, we’re hit with the pandemic, climate change, environmental degradation, and political chaos. Individually, we worry about our children, our parents, our friends, our financial security…

• An Elephant in the Room? by Rev. Matt Aspin

  Prairie strives to be a place where difficult conversations can be had, by people that sometimes disagree mightily- a rare space in this world where decisions about what is in…