Participate in a New Spiritual Formation Questionnaire – Win a Free Spiritual Direction Session!

We’ve got a new, snappy Spiritual Formation questionnaire we’d love you to fill out today (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSetiI1vU1mJXv3pZYR-vP2YiffA-6b6ltY-pN619izWsaYf9w/viewform). The questions invite you to ponder what changes have happened in your spirit over the past year and what might God be inviting you to. You are free to answer all eight spiritual formation questions or just some of them. If you answer all of …

Introduce the Congregation to a Worthy Charity!

Each month, the Ministry of Justice and Service directs the congregation’s weekly offerings to a charity who addresses an issue affecting vulnerable members of our society: homelessness, food insecurity, immigration, environment, mental health, health care inequality, criminal justice, or educational inequality. Is there such an organization close to your heart? Perhaps one you’ve donated to in the past, or one …

Volunteer Researcher Needed: Berkeley Faith and Justice Alliance

It has been years since Berkeley has had a robust, organized interfaith alliance. A few faith leaders have recently begun meeting as the newly formed Berkeley Faith and Justice Alliance. Rev. Molly is heading up the subcommittee working on issues of affordable housing and ending homelessness. We are looking for someone from our church to spend some time over the …

Accepting Ambivalence: Third Gender, Third Race, Third Space, Mysterious Transformations in Acts 8:26-40

Learning HourSunday, February 21, 12:15 pmhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88967740143?pwd=M1pqRE92SnZBbjZKNmpvelBKVTNRdz09ID: 889 6774 0143 Passcode: 261432 Professor Sharon Jacob from Pacific School of Religion is a fabulous, engaging teacher of New Testament.  Following our Theologian in Residence and our Racial Reconciliation workshops in the Fall, Dr. Jacob will bring a racial lens to some familiar stories from the Book of Acts.  Sometimes we get into …

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Socially Conscious Cinema

Saturday, February 20, 2:30 pmhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84983642308?pwd=N1hrMDVaTEhqOTVjUjFTdmp3SDAzdz09ID: 849 8364 2308 Passcode: 151129 Watch the film ahead of time, and join us for a discussion of Mary Mazzio’s 2020 documentary film “A Most Beautiful Thing, which chronicles the first African American high school rowing team in this country (made up of young men, many of whom were in rival gangs from the West Side of …

2021 Lent Devotional “Promises, Promises” Coming Soon

Pick up a hard copy of Promises, Promises, the 2021 Lent Devotional by the UCC’s Stillspeaking Writers’ Group from the church office (beginning Fri., 2/12, 1 to 4 pm; Tues., 2/16 & Wed. 2/17, noon to 4 pm. The office is closed Mon., 2/15 for Presidents’ Day) or from participating neighborhood captains. The devotional includes a biblical text, reflection, and prayer for each day …

LENT 2021 REPAIRING THE BREACH

Lent 2021: Repairing the Breach

This Lent we will lend our attention to the idea of Repairing the Breach, from the words of Isaiah,  Your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations;you shall be called the repairer of the breach, the restorer of streets to live in. As we reckon with our nation’s history and present of entrenched …

Virtual Mardi Gras

Tuesday, February 16, 6 pmhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/85301553393?pwd=R2sxZ3gzbWR1eG1Rck43NHRKY2IzZz09ID: 853 0155 3393 Passcode: 403141 You’re invited to join your church family for an intergenerational celebration as we reinvent our Mardi Gras pancake dinner and dance party traditions for pandemic times. Our celebration will include catching up while eating breakfast-for-dinner together, telling jokes in breakout rooms, singing and dancing, and then moving into the season …