In Memory, 2020 We have a tradition at UUFM that goes back to 1999 when our part-time minister then, Rev. Sarah Oehlberg, celebrated Memorial Day by remembering those who had died in the last year. While she would deliver her sermon at Nora Church in Hanska, I would read it to us on Pohl … Continue reading In Memory 2020 Sermon
Creating Ourselves: My Mother, Not Myself By Barbara Keating Homily for Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Mankato August 25, 2019 My mother’s official diagnoses for which she was hospitalized multiple times starting in her forties, included alcoholism, paranoia, and manic-depressive bipolar disorder. Unofficially, but going back as far as I can remember into my childhood, she … Continue reading Creating Ourselves: My Mother, Not Myself
In Memory, 2019 – Tony Filipovitch Prelude: Aretha Franklin, “Nessun Dorma” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF4tWLAW3lY) 0:37-4:25) At the 1998 Grammys, Luciano Pavarotti was scheduled to sing the aria “Nessun Dorma” from the opera Turandot. As the show was on the air, his doctors cancelled his performance. A quick note on the song. The performance you are about to … Continue reading In Memory, 2019
The Miracle of the Loaves & Fishes Tony Filipovitch (4/28/19) Synopsis: A mindset of abundance flows from a sense of personal worth and security. It is the confidence that there is plenty out there and enough to spare for everybody. It reaches out to possibilities, options, creativity. The miracle of the loaves and fishes was … Continue reading The Miracle of the Loaves & Fishes
Five Smooth Stones Carrie Rice July 22, 2018 Readings Paul Rasor on definition of theology Faith Without Certainty, ppxvii-xviii The term theology is often associated with arcane and academic or technical concepts that focus on abstract doctrines. But the purpose of theology is really quite simple. If religion is about the large-scale world pictures that … Continue reading Five Smooth Stones
Images of the Sacred: Cultural Symbols, Evolution and Diffusion Barbara Keating Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Mankato Sunday, June 3, 2018 Sacred.Images.talk.June’18 The slides referenced in the previous document are from the this power point.
THE CARE AND FEEDING OF A NEW MINISTER – Tony Filipovitch Reading: Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince. Selections from Ch. XXI Intro Reminded of the story told about Ben Franklin, leaving Independence Hall in Philadelphia just after the Convention adopted the new Constitution. A bystander asked, “What did you give us?” “A democracy,” Franklin … Continue reading The Care and Feeding of a New Minister
THE GUEST HOUSE – Sue Stevens Chambers Ever since our election over a year ago, I have been listening. I have been hearing conflict, and listening to people on the media, people in my life talk about all the problems we face. Is the conflict higher because of the climate the media has introduced? I … Continue reading The Guest House
COURAGEOUS HOSPITALITY – Tony Filipovitch Good morning, and welcome! As Kim mentioned, I’m Tony Filipovitch and I am a member of this congregation. In fact, although Kathy & I have officially been members since 1997, we have been Unitarian Universalists much longer. I remember, when we signed the Registry, the whispers of surprise—many people thought … Continue reading Courageous Hospitality
IN MEMORY, 2017 – Tony Filipovitch A popular trope in science fiction explores Schrodinger’s theory of multiple simultaneous universes—the “multiverse” (Blake Crouch’s Dark Matter is a particularly good recent example). You do not have to be an astrophysicist, however, to experience the multiverse. When anyone dies, an entire world dies with them. Like the supernova … Continue reading In Memory, 2017
