Gathering for Sunday services in person and online, 10:15 am.
In Dismantling White Supremacy this Tuesday, October 8, we’ll learn the background and impact of a Fair Chance Housing ordinance and take effective, immediate action to help reverse a form of systemic racism that keeps people out of housing in Palo Alto. I hope … read more.
The work of organizing BIPOC Unitarian Universalists through Diverse Revolutionary Unitarian Universalist Multicultural Ministries (DRUUMM) Bay Area continues to grow in leaps and bounds! At the Spring Retreat in May at First UU Oakland, over 30 people attended, representing 15 congregations, over three time zones, … read more.
UU the Vote, which has mobilized so many voters in its brief history, invites us to a webinar about the work ahead.
Three of the special guests:
Nora Rasman, Side With Love Democracy Strategist
Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson, Highlander Research & Education Center Co-Executive Director
Once again this year, the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) has re-certified our congregation as a Welcoming Congregation, one that meets the needs of queer and trans congregants and the wider community. UUCPA became a Welcoming Congregation in 1998. To maintain that designation, each year a … read more.
In our sessions about Israel and Palestine, we now come to the terrible events of last October 7 and their aftermath. If you haven’t been able to make the previous sessions but would like to learn something about the last eight months in Israel and … read more.
Dismantling White Supremacy
This Tuesday, June 11, at the Dismantling White Supremacy meeting, we’ll learn about bills moving through the California legislature that act on the recommendations of the state’s task force on reparations for African-Americans. We cannot erase the past, but we can repair much … read more.
You may have read about this international phenomenon, created in Denmark in 2000: a library full of human “books,” each of whom is prepared to speak from their own experience as a person with a frequently-misunderstood ethnicity, mental health condition, disability, social status, occupation, … read more.
Update: the last four sessions will be by Zoom only
In the recent service about talking about Israel and Palestine, I asked you to write your hopes, fears, and questions about this heartbreaking issue. Dozens of people did—almost everyone in attendance—and what I and Rev. … read more.
An immersive experience in immigration justice and (literally) building community
Pastor AJ Blackwood, Executive Director of the Unitarian Universalist Justice Ministry of California (UUJMCA), sends us this invitation:
Join us on April 4-7, 2024, for our annual Pilgrimage to the Border – … read more.
“How shall we live? Be welcoming to all.”
Mechthild of Magdeburg
I learned today that the original meaning of the word “welcome” is “desirable guest.” What an interesting reversal!: that the reason we offer welcome to someone is because they are a desirable person to have as … read more.