This year, as an addition to the Holy Week services online and the outdoor Easter Sunrise, there’s a 30-minute podcast to help you get in the emotional space for Easter. A mix of meditative prompts and music, the podcast would be a great soundtrack to a walk through a cemetery, a stroll along the water, a jaunt through your neighborhood, half …
Saturday, April 10, 7 pmhttps://shotgunplayers.org/ The young adult group gathers for a virtual night at the theater! Feel the Spirit is a live Zoom performance, a world premiere commission by the Shotgun players, which follows a young, queer pastor attempting to navigate her new congregation’s shift to online worship due to COVID-19. As seasons change outside and the flat timeline of quarantine continues, the …
As we move together through Holy Week, marking Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, HolySaturday, and Easter Sunday, we accept once again that we are the church in the world. We acceptJesus’s call to serve him by serving others – the hungry, the homeless, the refugee and immigrant, the oppressed. We do this in many ways through our outreach to, …
Sunday, April 11, 12:15 pmhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88967740143?pwd=M1pqRE92SnZBbjZKNmpvelBKVTNRdz09ID: 889 6774 0143 Passcode: 261432 When we pair photos with poems, we can enhance how we experience both. In this session Linda Elsdon will show examples of her photos paired with existing poems as an illustration of PhotoPoetry. Linda is an avid photographer and started the ongoing group Seeing Through Photography at the church in …
Sunday, March 21, 12:15 pmhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88967740143?pwd=M1pqRE92SnZBbjZKNmpvelBKVTNRdz09 In this talk, Dr. Mahjabeen Dhala will draw on two major Islamic pilgrimage sites, the Kaaba in Mecca and the Gauharshad Mosque in Iran, to highlight the narratives of women enshrined within these sites and their foundational role in curating sacred spaces for religious practice, spiritual nourishment, and social justice. Dr. Majabeen Dhala received her MA …
Prolific, iconic Christian singer-songwriter, Alameda neighbor and UCC friend Ken Medema will be with us again for a Learning Hour. Ken, born blind, began to create stories and music at the age of 5, and often works improvisationally, turning trauma into sacred text at the drop of a piano key. On Sunday, March 28 at 12:15 pm, Ken will lead …
Thursday, March 25, 11:30 am-1 pmhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/87552208970?pwd=blVMMnpVVkxDeWVuMTlGNndGTlZodz09ID: 875 5220 8970 Passcode: 016767 Bring your lunch and a curious mind; we’ll gather by Zoom with 7 other East Bay UCCs to read this short article together, watch a video by local tribal leader Corrina Gould, and talk more deeply about “what we owe” as reparations to Black, Asian and indigenous communities right …
Due on Monday, March 29 For this year’s Easter worship grand finale dance party, we’re creating a pandemic era music video inspired by Justin Bieber‘s “Holy.” We’d love to include as many people and families as possible! You can participate in all or one of these ways: Learn this simple choreography (https://youtu.be/NyE6RWEDTHw) and film yourself/ household doing the choreography a few times …