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UUCB - Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley

We are thrilled to invite you to the "Turning the Tides Justice Summit," hosted by the Unitarian Universalist Justice Ministry of California. This transformative event will take place via ZOOM over the weekend of August 9-11.

CoSponsors:
The Rising Majority
Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East
UURISE (UU Refugee and Immigrant Services and Education) EqUUal Access
Unitarian Universalist Women's Federation
The Unitarian Universalist Society for Community Ministries

To attend, please visit https://uujmca.org/turning-the-tides/ and click on the “Register TODAY” button. The event is free, but space is limited, so we encourage you to secure your spot as soon as possible.

Unitarian Universalist Justice Ministry of California

08/07/2024

Roy Zimmerman in concert at UUCB Sep 20! Enjoy Roy's blend of politics and humor -- laughter is the best medicine!

07/24/2024

Meet our new Director of Family Ministry, Kathryn Jay!

Hello everyone! My name is Kathryn Jay, and I’m happy to be the new Director of Family Ministry. I graduated from Starr King School for the Ministry in 2020 with a MDiv. While at SKSM, I helped to create a new Chalice Camp curriculum focused on environmental justice. I also spent ten years as a high school history teacher and most recently ran youth and family programs--featuring a ten-week summer camp--for Urban Adamah, the Jewish farm and education center in Berkeley.

I’m excited to help families find a sense of intergenerational warmth and opportunity for spiritual growth in the coming years. I hope UUCB’s Family Ministry Program will be a community of radical belonging, a place where everyone can feel comfortable enough to stretch and grow into the fullness of themselves. I believe this congregation has the potential to move people toward more loving kindness, more urgency to transform the world and I’m so excited to be part of that!

Blessings, Kathryn

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07/23/2024

What a beautiful morning on Saturday July 20! We made the UUCB grounds and landscaping more beautiful. Good group of great volunteers, picking up litter, removing weeds, spreading wood chips, and helping to improve the UUCB campus.

Here are are photos of us saving a live oak tree that was strangling from English ivy, (before and after), relaxing in Marcus' beautiful bench and admiring RedBud tree. And watching a Coyote visit 3 Sisters garden and hunt gophers. (good hunting)

07/23/2024

Hello everyone! From the UUA and Side with Love:

Sharing this message on recent political developments from our friends at Side with Love. As we collectively face the winds of change, let us be mindful that it is love and not fear that guides us toward a liberated future.
Please join on Tuesday, July 30 at 8pm ET / 7pm CT / 6pm MT / 5pm PT for a national call with updates on the work ahead, how you can support, and how UU the Vote is resourcing our movement in this phase of another historic election season.
Register here: https://bit.ly/BuildingANewWay

Yesterday’s campaign announcement comes after weeks of consequential political events, and we know more will follow. These moments challenge our justice movements and demand our collective resilience. We are fortified in the truth that when our movements face the winds of change, it is love and not fear that guides us toward a liberated future.

Please join UU the Vote on Tuesday, July 30 at 8pm ET / 7pm CT / 6pm MT / 5pm PT for a national call to get the latest updates on the work ahead, how you can support, and how UU the Vote is resourcing our movement in this phase of another historic election season.

Register here: https://bit.ly/BuildingANewWay

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07/21/2024

… And Again

Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley July 21, 2024

06/21/2024

This Sunday's Worship Service will be a livestream from General Assembly. You can watch the livestream here:
https://www.uua.org/ga/off-site/2024/sunday-worship

05/29/2024

The second annual Three Sisters Garden was planted recently on the church grounds by members of the Honoring Indigenous Peoples Group. This Sunday there will be a blessing of the garden following the worship service and a Three Sisters-based lunch (a casserole featuring squash, corn and beans).

05/12/2024

The Art of Peace. A Mother’s Day service with music to honor Asian American and Pacific Islander month.

04/21/2024

Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley April 21, 2024

Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley April 21, 2024 The Three Questions

04/07/2024

Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley April 7, 2024

Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley April 7, 2024 World Religions in the 21st Century: What Matters Most

03/13/2024

UUCB's Social Justice Council is sponsoring Pogo Park's Peace Walk this Friday March 15 at 6 pm.

03/13/2024

UUCB's Social Justice Council is proud to sponsor Sisters in Solidarity's 17th annual International Women's Day event! Enjoy a day of networking and mingling with other powerful women in the Richmond community.

The City of Richmond’s 17th Annual Sisters in Solidarity International Women’s Day celebration will be held on Saturday, March 16th from 10am to 2pm at the Lavonya Dejean Middle School.

This year we will pay tribute to the late, former Mayor Irma L. Anderson who was a trailblazer in the City of Richmond, Contra Costa County and state-wide. Over the course of her life, she touched so many people through her service and she encouraged others to serve. She has mentored and provided guidance to countless people, specifically, women who strived to have careers in the public sector. This year, the Sisters in Solidarity will award its inaugural award of the Irma L. Anderson Legacy Award for Service.

Join us for networking, resource sharing, fun engaging activities, and a panel discussion on our theme: Count Her In: Invest in Women and Accelerate Progress.

03/10/2024

Down To Your Toes
Guest preacher, Rev. Phil Porter. Worship Associate Sandy Portillo-Robins. Rev. Phil Porter, UCC minister, artist, theologian, and body intellectual, will explore what it might mean to take a wholeheartedly, whole-body approach to life. What keeps us from having our fullness? What wonders are we missing out on? Phil will share some of what he has learned exploring these possibilities for the last forty-plus years.

01/28/2024

Behind the Mask of Safety

Maybe there’s no such thing as an individual. Just as we are made up of many internal parts, we are also formed by our external relationships. “I am because we are,” or Ubuntu, as the Bantu-speaking peoples of Southern Africa name it. But there’s a paradox: our capacity to show up for healthy relationships is dependent on our capacity to live from a differentiated self. Why is it so hard to stay connected to our truest selves with those we depend on most? What might we have to risk to make more contact between the world and the self?

Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley January 28, 2024

01/28/2024

Working through technical adaptations this morning, service will begin shortly.

12/25/2023

Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley December 24, 2023

Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley December 24, 2023, Listening for the Angel's Call (5 PM Service)

12/22/2023

From Rev. Marcus to UUs everywhere in this week's UUA Braver/Wiser.

Fear Not and Hallelujah Fear not, the angels would text me. Hallelujah, I’d write back.

12/17/2023

Listening for the Still Joy

Holiday logistics—the meals, the gifts, the travel, the getting everyone together and making sure they all have a good time of it all—can turn the most wonderful time of the year into the most stressful time of the year. All this effort for good holiday cheer, for joy. But isn’t there another kind of joy waiting for us just beneath the surface of the clamor? How might we live our lives listening to the call of the still joy already there, patiently awaiting our attention?

12/17/2023

Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley December 17, 2023

Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley December 17, 2023, Listening for the Still Joy

12/04/2023

December at a glance...

11/05/2023

From Seeds We Did Not Sow

While we like to think of ourselves as the captains of our own ships—independent actors charting the course of our own lives—life always finds a way to reveal that before we ever ripen into the moment of making our own choices, our stories are shaped by those who’ve come before us. Last Spring as you discerned whether to call me as your minister, I shared the story of the Israelites bringing Joseph’s bones back with them from Egypt to Israel, generations after his death. Now, I ask again, whose bones do you carry? And how might they still require honoring?

11/01/2023

On Sunday October 29, we had Kevin Fisher-Paulson (SF Chronicle columnist) as our speaker for Personal Theology. His talk was endearing, funny, heartwarming, and heartbreaking. We feel so fortunate he agreed to talk with us!

Personal Theology Seminars are one-hour presentations given by speakers who come from a range of perspectives on such subjects as Sufism, Atheism, the Goddess, Christianity, Physics, Consciousness, Islam, Buddhism, Judaism, Altered States, and Human Potential. Seminars pursue the UU values of drawing inspiration from diverse traditions and deepening one’s life.

These sessions take place on specific Sundays each month, and they are announced the month before.

Join us!

10/29/2023

Harvests from the Memory Tree

The end of October marks a holiday known by many names and traditions. In the Gaelic pagan tradition, it’s known as Samhain, marking the end of the season of harvest and the beginning of the darker time of the year. In an intergenerational service of ritual and story, let’s mark the time when “the veil between the worlds is thinnest” by honoring our beloved dead. Who would you place on our altar of common memory? What gifts from those who’ve come before live on in you?

10/20/2023

Goings on around campus... Don't forget to check the captions!

10/08/2023

Blow in the Wind, Rise in the Sea

We must know our home to exist in the context of the more than human world all around us. Pneumatology is the word in systematic theology for our understanding of how the spirit, literally the breath of life, moves through the world. As we celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day and dedicate ourselves to the work of repairing relationships with land, history, and present day communities, how do we celebrate the universal truths of earth-based spirituality which shine through all the world’s religious tradition? How do we claim our religious inheritance that connects to all who honor the earth as our common sacred center?

08/07/2023

Rev. Marcus and his wife Caitlyn with the welcome cakes on his first Sunday at UUCB.

07/30/2023

Roy Zimmerman at UUCB on August 26 at 8 pm! Join Roy to laugh your way to sanity -- Roy's satire, co-written with his wife Melanie Harby, is clever, hard-hitting, and very very funny. Their song parody, Vote Him Away (The Liar Tweets Tonight) garnered over 140 million views. He's shared stages with Bill Maher, Ellen DeGeneres, Holly Near, Robin Williams, Arlo Guthrie, John Oliver, Kate Clinton and George Carlin. Buy tickets https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/6060006

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