Selected Full Service Recordings from Past Years |
Congregation History |
2/19/1989 | Re-Dedication of the Meeting House | oos |
3/10/1992 | Prairie history and structure (for new member orientation session) | |
10/25/1992 | Gee, It Doesn't Seem that Long....Prairie's 25th Anniversary Celebration | |
5/16/1999 | Developing a Prairie Mission Statement | oos |
11/30/2008 | Prairie Reflections | oos |
9/17/2017 | Fifty Years at Prairie - A Celebration of Every Decade | oos |
5/26/2019 | Walls Talking | oos |
Music |
8/5/1984 | Summer Concert | |
12/22/1985 | A Season for Celebration | |
2/25/1990 | Good Times Music | |
6/17/1990 | People of the Book (songbook) | |
8/27/1995 | Summer Music Special | oos |
8/20/2000 | Prairie Jam Session | |
1/28/2001 | The Gospel According to the Ethnic Connection | |
8/15/2004 | Peace Like a River, Joy Like a Fountain | |
5/10/2009 | Women Composers or Who was Hilda Neupert? | oos |
5/9/2010 | Women Composers, II | |
7/31/2016 | Let's Blow Our Horns | oos |
Mike Briggs |
10/22/1989 | The U.N.-A Toothless Giant? with Norma Briggs and Pat Cautley | |
4/15/1990 | The Dodo and the Easter Bunny, an intergenerational service with Norma | |
4/22/1990 | The Death of the Worker with Norma | |
5/6/1990 | Techno-Cops with Norma | |
5/13/1990 | Who Owns Life? with Norma | |
12/23/1990 | Intergenerational Holiday Service with Norma | |
6/21/1992 | Life Without Father | |
11/22/1992 | Dear Bill...a letter to the president elect | |
12/13/1992 | Epithets: Putting Down and Lifting Up | |
2/14/1993 | Valentine's Day Intergenerational Service | |
12/24/1995 | A program of traditional Christmas readings and carols with Barbara Park | oos |
9/30/2007 | G.A. Inspiration with Norma and Barbara Park | |
George Calden |
12/9/1984 | Are there men's issues? on panel with Rick Ruecking, Gerald Beroldi and Geoff Bonser | |
9/14/1986 | The Liberation Theology of Father Carney | |
10/5/1986 | A Refusenick Trapped in the Soviet Union | |
6/3/1990 | A Prairie Stir Fry | |
7/11/1993 | Everyone Should Leave Tracks | |
12/12/1993 | Precious Memories | oos |
12/10/1995 | Let Every Little Light Shine | oos |
Ruth Calden |
4/11/1976 | Shaker Life and Rituals | |
11/29/1987 | Prairie: Past, Present and Future | |
11/1/1998 | All Souls' Day | oos |
10/31/1999 | All Souls' Day Celebration with Lisa Glueck | |
10/28/2001 | All Soul's Day | |
Robin Carré |
5/24/1998 | Transitions Intergenerational Service with Erin Bosch | oos |
9/26/1999 | Thinking Like Leonardo | oos |
2/4/2001 | Introduction to Our Whole Lives for Adults | oos |
2/18/2001 | Introduction to Our Whole Lives for Adults (the sequel) | oos |
6/17/2001 | Advocating for Sexuality Education, Health and Justice | oos |
10/15/2017 | From Guatemala to Madison and Back: An Adoption Story | oos |
Doleta Chapru |
4/14/1985 | "Toughing it Out" on the Colorado Plains | |
5/5/1985 | Prairie Creators | |
8/29/1993 | Introducing - Singing the Living Tradition | |
4/7/1996 | Fun is a Family Value | oos |
6/8/1997 | Personal Strategies for Emotional Healing | |
6/21/1998 | The Boy Scouts of America and the Right of Conscience | |
5/2/1999 | Prairie People Serve: How Are We Living up to Our UU Principles? | oos |
1/23/2000 | Duke Ellington: Music of the Soul, with Warren Hagstrom | oos |
2/27/2000 | Respectful Disagreement: Between Nicey-Nice and Spilling Blood, with Jennifer Parker | |
9/10/2000 | Good Things About the Religions We've Left, with panel | oos |
8/25/2002 | Getting ALL the News: Alternatives to the Mainstream, with Nancy Graham | |
1/26/2003 | A Posse of Giddy Girls: Wyoming's Battle for Women's Suffrage | |
Warren Hagstrom |
1/23/1977 | What Does Religion Mean to You? Do you Define Yourself as Religious? | |
12/11/1983 | Music in the Family: W.A. Mozart (1756-1791) | oos |
2/5/1984 | Music Among Friends: Franz Schubert | oos |
2/26/1984 | Dimitri Shostakovich: Music, Revolution and Tyranny | oos |
3/22/1987 | George F. Handel: in Celebration of 303 Years of His Life | oos |
5/1/1988 | Stephen Foster | oos |
9/10/1989 | Does Religion Have Any Redeeming Value? | |
9/17/1989 | Can a UU Be a Christian? | |
9/24/1989 | St. Paul and Power | |
10/1/1989 | Bible Stories-Good, Bad, and Awful | |
10/29/1989 | The Devil is the Spirit of Gravity-Through Him All Things Fall | |
11/5/1989 | The Politics of Original Sin | |
11/19/1989 | UU's and Other Denominations: Are We So Different? | |
9/22/1991 | Spirtuality and Its Antithesis | |
5/11/1997 | How the Irish Saved Civilization Featuring Music by Samuel Barber | oos |
5/9/1999 | Franz Liszt, A Really Romantic Composer | oos |
1/16/2000 | Our Korean Friends, with Doleta Chapru | oos |
2/20/2000 | The Trickster | oos |
3/19/2000 | Richard Feynman: A Curious Character, with Al Nettleton | oos |
3/26/2000 | Emily Dickinson: Musical Settings of her Poems, with Doleta Chapru | oos |
12/10/2000 | J. S. Bach - 250th anniversary celebration (a musical biography) | oos |
4/28/2002 | Anything Goes: Cole Porter's Life and Music | |
2/4/2007 | The Myth of Romantic Love, Yesterday and Today | |
Rosemarie Lester |
3/10/1991 | The Music of Kurt Weill with Al Nettleton | |
1/3/1993 | Cowboys, Injuns, Hogan's Heroes: What Images
About the 'Other' Tell Us About Ourselves | |
6/15/1997 | The Images We Live With I with Nikki Bromberg | |
6/22/1997 | The Images We Live With II with Nikki Bromberg | |
12/7/1997 | Christmas Eve: From the Outside Looking In | oos |
4/16/2000 | Hunting for Hope - A Word or Two from Literature
with Kay Frazier, Rachel Long and Karen Gross | oos |
4/27/2008 | This I Believe with Judy Skog and Bob Cape | |
9/18/2011 | Let's Agree to Disagree: Notes from the 2011 General Assembly
with Phyllis Long, Barb Park, Christina Klock and Marcia Johnson | |
12/23/2012 | Far and Near - A Joyful Noise | oos |
Mary Mullen |
4/29/1984 | Mary Mullen's Report on her Triip to the Texas/Mexico Border | |
11/25/1984 | Why a Woman Minister? | |
1/29/1989 | East Asia, Myths and Reality | |
2/5/1989 | Making Peace With the East | |
12/10/1989 | Sounds Suspiciously Like Homophobia to Me | |
12/17/1989 | Better Gay than Grumpy, But What About the Family? | |
1/14/1990 | Dark Days and Dawn: Not a Straight History (partial) | |
1/21/1990 | We Are a Gentle Angry People, But Are We Ready to Be a Welcoming Congregation? | |
4/20/1997 | This Little Light of Mine: Individual and Community Strategies Regarding Homophobia | |
12/13/1998 | Transformations | |
7/29/2007 | Celebrating Malvina Reynolds, UU Singer-Songwriter | |
5/31/2009 | The Zen of Gardens and Gardening - Prairie People Talk about the Spirituality of Gardening | oos |
5/13/2012 | Caroline Norton: Mothers & Women's Rights | oos |
5/12/2013 | Remembering Our Mothers | oos |
Robin Proud |
1/13/2008 | Behind Every Great Man: The Peabody Sisters | |
5/23/2010 | A Visit from Margaret Fuller | oos |
11/20/2011 | A Guest at Your Thanksgiving Table | oos |
2/24/2013 | Harriet Martineau | oos |
10/20/2013 | Lydia Maria Child | oos |
5/18/2014 | The Secret Life of Julia Ward Howe | oos |
1/11/2015 | A Dose of Empathy | oos |
3/20/2016 | Charles Dickens | oos |
8/28/2016 | Out of this World: UUs and Science Fiction | oos |
3/12/2017 | Louisa Adams | oos |
7/9/2017 | It Can't Happen Here - Or Can It? | oos |
11/5/2017 | Free Speech vs. Hate Speech: Where Do We Draw the Line? | oos |
5/13/2018 | Founding Mothers | oos |
10/28/2018 | Mary Shelley, Frankenstein and the Risks of Science | oos |
11/11/2018 | The Hero's Journey | oos |
6/30/2019 | The Women's Journey | oos |
10/20/2019 | Abigail Adams and the Anger of Women | oos |
5/23/2020 | The Lost Art of Scripture: Karen Armstrong | oos |
8/23/2020 | Helen Hamilton Gardener, Free Thinker and Suffragist | oos |
1/24/2021 | The Invisible Stage of Life | oos |
4/11/2021 | Elizabeth Blackwell | oos |
9/26/2021 | "Unitarian, Suffragist, and Black" by Frances E. W. Harper | oos |
1/30/2022 | Rediscovered Transcendentalist: Caroline Healey Dall | oos |
Anne Urbanski |
9/12/1993 | In the Beginning: A Look at Creation Myths | |
9/19/1993 | The God as Archetype - Part I: The Great Goddess and the Supreme Being | |
10/17/1993 | Myths In Modern Drama | |
1/28/1996 | What Does It Mean to Be A Religious Liberal in Madison, Wisconsin? | |
10/18/1998 | Sidney and God (featuring Anne, Al Nettleton, Warren Hagstrom & George Calden) | |
6/26/2016 | Fear is the path to the Dark Side: The inherent worth and dignity of every person versus fear of The Other | oos |
6/4/2017 | Sidney and God (featuring Anne, Al Nettleton & Marty Drapkin) | oos |
9/24/2017 | Milestones in LGBTQ History | oos |
Pat Watkins |
4/28/1985 | From the Belly of the Whale: Saga of a Black Family | |
11/17/1985 | Life Without Work | |
1/5/1986 | Back to the Future | |
4/13/1986 | Comes a Volunteer | |
6/8/1986 | Work & Song in Literature with Mike Briggs, Barbara James and Joe Lawrence | |
8/9/1987 | Of Patriotism, Solldiers and War | |
1/15/1989 | Racism | |
2/9/1992 | It's Love that Makes the World Go Round | |
3/20/1994 | The Ranking Game | |
5/7/1995 | A Jury of One's Peers? What's wrong with the jury system and what Dane County is doing to fix it | oos |
8/20/1995 | Neither Abridged Nor Denied | oos |
10/26/1997 | Our Global Community: The UN and UUSC | |
2/8/1998 | Suffer the Little Children | oos |
8/30/1998 | If I Were a Rich Man or Woman: What and to Which Causes Would I Give? | |
1/9/2000 | Do We Consume Things or Do They Consume Us? | oos |
2/6/2000 | Black History in Song, Poetry and Prose | |
1/25/2009 | The Pain of War; The Joy of Peace | oos |
2/19/2012 | The Story of A Black Family | oos |
Dave Zakem |
9/23/1984 | Cultures of the Andes: Ancient & Modern | |
3/15/1992 | Mayan Art and Culture, Past and Present | |
6/23/2002 | Sights and Insights of Laos | oos |
Outside Speakers |
1/28/1990 | Sam Day: The Road to Peace Begins at Prairie UU | |
10/24/1999 | Tammy Baldwin: United Nations Sunday: The Honorable Tammy Baldwin, Congressional Rep. for Wis. 2nd District | |
9/15/2002 | John Nichols: Reclaiming our Civil Liberties | oos |
4/3/2011 | Fred Edwords: A Humanist Look at Myth, Symbol, and Art | oos |