Gathering for Sunday services in person and online, 10:15 am → changing to 10:30 am start time Oct 12
We’ll consider home this morning: a concept with deep spiritual meanings, as well as a justice issue as we seek to ensure that everyone has a safe place to call home.
Millie Phillips is a Unitarian Universalist minister and faith-rooted organizer with the East Bay … read more.
What does the example of Jesus have to teach us about disability, solidarity, and accessibility? How can we apply these ideas in our modern context to create a truly just, equitable, and inclusive society for all? We’ll look at the Gospel of Luke for insights.
Pastor … read more.
The service’s message about friendship is more than a warm affirmation of its importance. It can be joyful and spontaneous, or edgy and slow-growing.
Friendship is found in the relationship of two well-known political opposites who demonstrate their mutual caring even as they adamantly disagree on … read more.
Images hold power. They shape and inform how we perceive the world. They also influence how we treat people around equity, accessibility and inclusion. Join us as we learn to break down societal barriers in order to break through, break open and break free into … read more.
In this sermon, we will explore democracy not just as a political structure, but as a profound ethical duty. Drawing inspiration from Timothy Snyder’s insightful work, “On Tyranny,” we will reflect on the pressing moral obligation to uphold democratic principles in our modern era.In a … read more.
For a long time, Unitarians and Universalists stuck with Christianity, trying to improve its bad theology by reforming it from within. Then many of them just gave up the effort and stopped calling themselves Christians. Now here we are in 2024, putting “Love at … read more.
Experiences vary, but there’s no question that on the whole, it’s hard to be a man. Despite having the highest income and wealth of any gender, and more of their healthcare needs covered by their insurance, men’s life expectancy is considerably lower than the national … read more.
When you arrive at today’s service, think about a song in either Singing the Living Tradition (the gray hymnal) or Singing the Journey (the teal hymnal) that you’d love us all to sing, and add it to the flip chart or Zoom chat. We’ll sing … read more.
Unitarian Universalism was forged in crisis. Is it up to the crises we face now?
To answer this question, today’s service calls upon the California state lichen, Louis Armstrong, a living thing that was already 7000 years old when the oldest redwoods were little sprouts, and … read more.
The novelist Barbara Kingsolver says, “Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.” On this weekend nominally dedicated to remembrance, we reflect: what do we choose to remember? What do we choose to forget? And how can we use memorial … read more.