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.
by Rev. Roger Bertschausen
This fall I’ve talked about pilgrimage and grace as important cornerstones of my spirituality. Another one is place. Connection to place is very significant to me. As I contemplate leaving a place I’ve lived for half my life and moving to a new place, I am especially pondering connection to place in my heart.
Jace’s Legacy Story by Jay Thomas, Music Director
by Rev. Roger Bertschausen
by Rev. Kaaren Anderson
by Rev. Leah Hart-Landsberg
At this time of year it seems like all corners of the world are pushing gratitude as the solution to any problem imaginable. Does it ever grate on your nerves, just a little? Enforced gratitude can backfire, making us feel ashamed that we’re not sublimely happy about everything all the time.
by Rev. Roger Bertschausen
Our theme for November is grace. To me grace is a gift that I didn’t earn, and don’t even necessarily deserve. By definition, gifts of grace are beyond my control. But while I can’t make them happen, I can try to be open to them and make my life a fertile field where they might happen more often than less often. And I can can at the least pay attention and be aware of them when they do happen.
By Rev. Michael Schuler
Many of us feel a deep-seated need to exert control over our surroundings and circumstances. And indeed, it can be painful and even frightening to admit that in certain key respects we are not in a position to call the shots. From a psychological standpoint, holding on seems to be our default position. Letting go is harder, but sometimes it is precisely the right solution.
Rev. Michael A. Schuler has served for twenty-six years as the Parish Minister of the First Unitarian Society of Madison. He is the author of various essays in Dharma World and UU World magazines and the book Making the Good Life Last: Four Keys to Sustainable Living. He is a life-long distance runner who also practices t’ai chi and yoga.
by Rev. Roger Bertschausen
As I announced last spring, I will be leaving the Fellowship next summer, just short of my twenty-fifth anniversary here. It’s no exaggeration to say that this whole year is one of leave-taking and saying goodbye. In this sermon I’ll explore what this might mean–for you and for me–and how we might do this well.
by Rev. Roger Bertschausen
One of the central concepts in my spirituality is pilgrimage. I’ve preached about this before and want a last crack at it here. I’ll particularly focus on a variety of pilgrimages I undertook during my sabbatical last fall–from visiting the prison cell in Transylvania where one of the founders of Unitarianism died to the sacred abbey on the isle of Iona in Scotland to Strawberry Fields in Liverpool.
by Rev. Roger Bertschausen
Anne Lamott writes that when we stay we are, where we’re comfortable and safe, we die. To live life fully, we need to get skilled at taking risks. I’ll explore how we might do this–as individuals and as part of a spiritual community.
