Heralds of a New Gospel: John Muir, San Francisco Swedenborgians, and the Establishment of the Sierra Club

Learning HourSunday, April 25, 12:15 pmhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88967740143?pwd=M1pqRE92SnZBbjZKNmpvelBKVTNRdz09 Dr. Devin Zuber will draw from his recent book that traces how the Swedish scientist-turned-mystic Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) has impacted American environmental activism and art at its beginnings with John Muir and the establishment of the Sierra Club. Muir’s wilderness spirituality has bequeathed us a beautiful legacy, protecting places like Yosemite and was at …

Learning Hour: Making California Prisons Visible

Sunday, May 2, 12:15 pmhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88967740143?pwd=M1pqRE92SnZBbjZKNmpvelBKVTNRdz09ID: 818 4802 9793  Passcode: 341668 Many prisons in California are in rural and out of the way places. Living where we do we don’t often see these institutions and we tend not to think about them. This Learning Hour reminds us of the three dozen or so California State Prisons and when they were built. …

Asynchronous CROP Walk

Register & Give Here★ Snap a selfie (wearing your blue church “Motley pew” T-shirts for extra credit) on any walk this week you want to claim as your CROP Hunger walk! Post it to the private church Facebook group to inspire us all, AND/OR, if you’d be included in the pre-worship slide sho, email to [email protected].  Even if we can’t walk shoulder-to-shoulder this year, we …

UCC Thursdays for the Soul: Stop the Hate

A special webinar led by PAAM, UCCThursday, April 15, 12:30 pmRegister Here #StopTheHate – A Call to Prayer and Action by the Pacific Islander/Asian American Ministries (PAAM) of the United Church of Christ  Angry! Outraged! Upset! There are no words to reflect what is happening in our Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. Brutal attacks on the elderly and vulnerable …