Below is a list of past sermons given at The Fellowship. Once you find the sermon you’d like to listen to, just click on the sermon title listed, and it will open that sermon in a page with the options to listen to it via the web, to download the MP3 for listening offline, or to open the transcript of the sermon to read.

To Imagine

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by Rev. Leah Ongiri
One of the first local UU ancestors Rev. Leah learned about when she moved to Wisconsin was Lewis Allen McGee, a Chicago-based Humanist and one of the first African American Unitarian ministers. After preaching on him in her first year of ministry to the Fellowship, she started thinking about him a lot again this summer when she had some space for personal reflection about how best to absorb the political uprising following George Floyd’s murder. Rev. McGee’s work has been a surprisingly timely and imaginative resource.

A Theology of Connection in Zoomland

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by Rev. Jim Coakley
Since the invention of the letter and then the telephone, human connection has slowly crept towards the virtual world. Now that the pandemic has rapidly increased this transition, how do we nurture a theology of connection in the virtual land of Zoom? Three local UU congregations: Fond du Lac, Green Bay, and Stevens Point will also be joining us today!

Bigger Than the Building

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by Marie Luna, Director of Congregational Life
The Fellowship is adapting to try to keep people connected while staying physically distant, and we are finding both success and challenge. Many of us tie being Unitarian Universalist to our buildings and the events that happen within them, but it is so much bigger. I invite you to explore what that might look like in your life today, and into the possible long term future of this changed world.

Gathering Our Resources

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by Rev. Christina Leone-Tracy
As we exist in the present moment, with such volatile change all around, it feels bizarre to look at the past (when we could touch each other and be in crowds!) and we wonder what the future holds. Now is a time to take stock of what we carry with us– the things that serve us and that hold us back. Let’s do that together!

Breathing Through

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Reflection and Breath Practice by Cindy Darling
Reflection and Breath Practice by Rev. Christina Leone-Tracy
As we continue to focus on our theme of “Finding Our Way,” we are aware of the need to return to the spiritual and centering practice of our breath. Join us for an exploration of the power of breath, and the need for all people to breathe freely, as we find our way forward.

One Bright Pearl

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by Taizan Alford
Eihei Dogen, the founder of the Soto Zen Buddhist sect writes about how the seeker can see all of life as a vehicle for awakening in his fascicle, One Bright Pearl.

Tai Alford, a long-time member of the Fellowship, and an ordained Soto Zen priest in training addresses through examining this Dogen fascicle, how we can see the current chaos created by the coronavirus, awareness of racism, political unrest as a pathway to growth and a deeper connection to ourselves, each other and to life itself.

Finding a Way to Healthy Masculinity

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  • with the Fellowship Men’s Group
  • Youth Statements Aaron Thibodeau and Peter Sieck
  • Reading Aikido Story, read by Doug Marsh
  • Special Music My Old Man, original written by Steve Goodman, cover written and performed by Todd Kunstman
  • Adult Statement Tom Pynenberg
  • Vision of a New Man written and shared by Dave Gerlach

This Father’s Day, join members of our Fellowship’s Men’s Group for a service on the power of healthy masculinity, breaking out of the “man box,” and finding their way to a new, stronger sense of what it means to be a good man.

Bloom Where We’re Planted

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Bridging introduction by Kim Hartman, director of Religious Education
Reflection by Ben Thiel, read by Kim Hartman
Reflection by Lillie Chudacoff
Reading from Flower Communion 1969 by William Rice
Sermon by Rev. Christina Leone-Tracy

This Sunday is one of the most cherished UU celebrations of the year: Flower Ceremony! We won’t be able to physically share our flowers, but please bring a flower to share virtually, and have some water handy for a ritual we’ll be doing together. We’ll honor the growth, healing, and wholeness of this community over the past year, as well as celebrating our bridging youth who are crossing the metaphorical bridge into young adulthood.

Perfectly Imperfect

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with Kim Hartman, director of religious education, and the UU Identity Class
Our high school UU Identity class will lead us in worship to explore what it means to be a UU, and to create a perfectly imperfect community. As we near the end of our year of Healing & Wholeness, our youth will remind us what it means to be both imperfect, and whole.

  • Reflection Liam Spoehr
  • Reading Zach Handwerker
  • Reflection Lilly Wait
  • Reflection Olivia Bauer-Shimek
  • Reading Lily Altmann
  • Reflection Adrian Sieck

“Why Was I Born?”: A Service of Questions

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by Rev. Leah Ongiri
This poignant title of the song popularized by Billie Holiday—and our special music for the morning—will set the stage for one of our traditional question sermons. Come with a question or few (about Unitarian Universalism, the world, or anything else), and Rev. Leah will spontaneously respond to as many as time allows. This service is up to you! What questions are on your mind and in your heart?