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Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto

505 East Charleston Road
Palo Alto, CA 94306

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650-494-0541

uucpa@uucpa.org

We gather,
our different paths entwined,
to deepen our spiritual lives:
nourishing connection,
learning from each other,
caring for each other,
tending to our world.

Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto
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Events - 24 Dec 19

Christmas Eve Candlelight Service

Christmas Eve Candlelight Service

12/24/2019    
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
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24 Dec

Christmas Eve Candlelight Service

12/24/2019    
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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7:00 PM - Thespians
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9:00 AM - "Pot of Gold" religious education conference at UUCPA
9:00 AM - Meditation
9:00 AM - Campus Workday
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10:30 AM - First Sunday Sing Out
12:30 PM - Environmental Crisis, Religious Education, and the Local Faith Community
1:00 PM - Monthly Writing Group
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12:00 PM - Brown Bag Books - Let Me be Frank With You (Fiction) by Richard Ford
1:30 PM - Elder Journey
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9:00 AM - Meditation
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12:15 PM - 2nd Sunday Lunch
12:30 PM - Sacred Texts and the Environmental Crisis
1:00 PM - Discovering UUCPA
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7:00 PM - Thespians
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7:15 PM - Film Discussion Group
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6:30 PM - 2nd Friday Bridge Club
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9:00 AM - Meditation
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12:30 PM - Non-traditional Family Traditions for UU Families
1:00 PM - Friends of Poetry
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1:30 PM - Elder Journey
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1:30 PM - Thespians
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9:00 AM - Meditation
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10:30 AM - 4th Sunday Brunch
12:30 PM - A Gynecologist Considers Women's Reproductive Rights, Choice, and Reproductive Justice
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7:00 PM - Thespians
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7:30 PM - Green Sanctuary Fourth Friday Film
29
9:00 AM - Meditation
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12:30 PM - Our Community's Most Vulnerable Children
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12:00 PM - Brown Bag Books - Notorious RBG: the Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
1:30 PM - Elder Journey
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9:00 AM - Hike Fremont Older Preserve
9:00 AM - Meditation
9:00 AM - Campus Workday
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Hotel de Zink
26 Sep
09/26/2016    
8:30 pm - 11:30 pm
UUCPA
  • Justice
Hotel de Zink
Hotel de Zink is the name of a rotating homeless shelter that UUCPA participates in.  During the month of September, we provide 15 men or [...]
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Thespians
Thespians
09/27/2016    
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Room 9
  • Adult
  • Learning
  • Ongoing Events
Thespians
Play Reading We sight-read a different play three times every month. The host provides scripts and we assign parts at the meetings. The group chooses [...]
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Hotel de Zink
27 Sep
09/27/2016    
8:30 pm - 11:30 pm
UUCPA
  • Justice
Hotel de Zink
Hotel de Zink is the name of a rotating homeless shelter that UUCPA participates in.  During the month of September, we provide 15 men or [...]
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Hotel de Zink
28 Sep
09/28/2016    
8:30 pm - 11:30 pm
UUCPA
  • Justice
Hotel de Zink
Hotel de Zink is the name of a rotating homeless shelter that UUCPA participates in.  During the month of September, we provide 15 men or [...]
More Info
Hotel de Zink
29 Sep
09/29/2016    
8:30 pm - 11:30 pm
UUCPA
  • Justice
Hotel de Zink
Hotel de Zink is the name of a rotating homeless shelter that UUCPA participates in.  During the month of September, we provide 15 men or [...]
More Info
Hotel de Zink
30 Sep
09/30/2016    
8:30 pm - 11:30 pm
UUCPA
  • Justice
Hotel de Zink
Hotel de Zink is the name of a rotating homeless shelter that UUCPA participates in.  During the month of September, we provide 15 men or [...]
More Info
"Pot of Gold" religious education conference at UUCPA
01 Oct
10/01/2016    
9:00 am - 3:30 pm
UUCPA - Main Hall
  • Learning
CYRE
On Saturday, Oct. 1, 9 am to 3:30 pm: Pot of Gold, the Pacific Central District religious education workshop, will be held at UUCPA. This [...]
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Meditation
Meditation
10/01/2016    
9:00 am - 10:30 am
Room 6
  • Adult
Meditation
  An ongoing meditation group that welcomes new members. We have a period of sitting meditation followed by readings and group discussion.   Contact:           Marilyn [...]
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Campus Workday
Campus Workday
10/01/2016    
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
UUCPA
  • Adult
Workday
WORK DAYS Date:                 1st Saturday every month Time:                 9 am-Noon Location:         UUCPA Campus Contact:           Michael Plass (workday@uucpa.org)   Consider making things even better by joining [...]
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First Sunday Sing Out
First Sunday Sing Out
10/02/2016    
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Patio
  • Adult
  • Music
First Sunday Sing Out
Come sing with us! We’ll sing favorite songs from the book Rise Up Singing. Anyone who likes to sing is welcome – and if you [...]
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Environmental Crisis, Religious Education, and the Local Faith Community
02 Oct
10/02/2016    
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Fireside Room and Zoom
  • Adult
  • Classes
  • Learning
ARE Fall 2016
This workshop will be based on a paper that Rev. Dan Harper presented at the “Sacred Texts, Human Contexts” conference in May 2016, an interfaith [...]
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Monthly Writing Group
02 Oct
10/02/2016    
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Room 9
  • Adult
Monthly Writing Group
Interested in Writing? UUCPA's Writing Group invites you to join us. We begin by sharing a page or two of something we've written, sometimes on [...]
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Brown Bag Books - Let Me be Frank With You (Fiction) by Richard Ford
Brown Bag Books - Let Me be Frank With You (Fiction) by Richard Ford
10/04/2016    
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Fireside Room
  • Adult
  • Learning
  • Ongoing Events
Brown Bag Books
The October selection is Let Me be Frank With You (Fiction) by Richard Ford. This is the story of Frank Bascombe (the protagonist in Ford’s [...]
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Elder Journey
04 Oct
10/04/2016    
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Room 6
  • Adult
  • Learning
  • Ongoing Events
  • Seniors
Elder Journey
  All elder members and friends of the UU community are welcome to attend – and you can define elder. One of our ministers leads [...]
More Info
Meditation
Meditation
10/08/2016    
9:00 am - 10:30 am
Room 6
  • Adult
Meditation
  An ongoing meditation group that welcomes new members. We have a period of sitting meditation followed by readings and group discussion.   Contact:           Marilyn [...]
More Info
2nd Sunday Lunch
2nd Sunday Lunch
10/09/2016    
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Patio
  • Adult
2nd Sunday Lunch
Join us for home-cooked, nutritious, delicious food for a very reasonable donation. We go through the buffet line in the Fireside Room and eat in [...]
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Sacred Texts and the Environmental Crisis
09 Oct
10/09/2016    
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Fireside Room and Zoom
  • Adult
  • Classes
  • Learning
  According to Prof. Mary Evelyn Tucker of Yale, an organizer of the renowned Forum on Religion and Ecology, the global environmental crisis “is not [...]
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Discovering UUCPA
Discovering UUCPA
10/09/2016    
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
UUCPA
  • Adult
  • Classes
Discovering UUCPA
Are you a new Unitarian Universalist? Considering UUism? Or well-acquainted with UUism, but new to UUCPA? This one-session class is offered every other month after [...]
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Thespians
Thespians
10/10/2016    
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Room 9
  • Adult
  • Learning
  • Ongoing Events
Thespians
  Play Reading We sight-read a different play three times every month. The host provides scripts and we assign parts at the meetings. The group [...]
More Info
Film Discussion Group
Film Discussion Group
10/11/2016    
7:15 pm - 9:00 pm
  • Adult
  • Ongoing Events
Film Discussion Group
  If you enjoy watching good films and would like the opportunity to discuss them with other people, we hope you will consider joining the [...]
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2nd Friday Bridge Club
2nd Friday Bridge Club
10/14/2016    
6:30 pm - 10:00 pm
Fireside Room
  • Adult
2nd Friday Bridge Club
If you know how to play bridge, please join us at the Second Friday Bridge Club. We have a very friendly, casual game. You don't [...]
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Meditation
Meditation
10/15/2016    
9:00 am - 10:30 am
Room 6
  • Adult
Meditation
  An ongoing meditation group that welcomes new members. We have a period of sitting meditation followed by readings and group discussion.   Contact:           Marilyn [...]
More Info
Non-traditional Family Traditions for UU Families
16 Oct
10/16/2016    
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Fireside Room
  • Adult
  • Classes
  • Learning
ARE Fall 2016
  What do you do when your family combines different ethnic and/or religious traditions? What do you do if you’re a Unitarian Universalist family who [...]
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Friends of Poetry
Friends of Poetry
10/16/2016    
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Room 9
  • Adult
  • Ongoing Events
Friends of Poetry
  You might come just to listen and see what we’re about; or you might come with a poem you have long enjoyed or one [...]
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Elder Journey
18 Oct
10/18/2016    
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Room 6
  • Adult
  • Learning
  • Ongoing Events
  • Seniors
Elder Journey
  All elder members and friends of the UU community are welcome to attend – and you can define elder. One of our ministers leads [...]
More Info
Thespians
21 Oct
10/21/2016    
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Fireside Room and Zoom
  • Adult
  • Learning
  • Ongoing Events
Thespians
Play Reading We sight-read a different play three times every month. The host provides scripts and we assign parts at the meetings. The group chooses [...]
More Info
Meditation
Meditation
10/22/2016    
9:00 am - 10:30 am
Room 6
  • Adult
Meditation
  An ongoing meditation group that welcomes new members. We have a period of sitting meditation followed by readings and group discussion.   Contact:           Marilyn [...]
More Info
4th Sunday Brunch
4th Sunday Brunch
10/23/2016    
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Patio
  • Adult
4th Sunday Brunch
Join us every 4th Sunday after the first service for brunch.  The usual fare includes waffles, hard boiled eggs, and fruit salad. Contact Edie if [...]
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A Gynecologist Considers Women's Reproductive Rights, Choice, and Reproductive Justice
23 Oct
10/23/2016    
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Fireside Room
  • Adult
  • Classes
  • Learning
ARE Fall 2016
In this session, Dr. Hillard will describe her journey to becoming an obstetrician/gynecologist. In the late 1960s and early 70s, she was motivated by the [...]
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Thespians
Thespians
10/25/2016    
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Room 9
  • Adult
  • Learning
  • Ongoing Events
Thespians
Play Reading We sight-read a different play three times every month. The host provides scripts and we assign parts at the meetings. The group chooses [...]
More Info
Green Sanctuary Fourth Friday Film
28 Oct
10/28/2016    
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Fireside Room
  • Adult
  • Green Sanctuary
Green Sanctuary, GS Fourth Friday Film
Films are shown on the fourth Friday of the month on a variety of topics and themes in the Fireside Room starting at 7:30 pm. Check out [...]
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Meditation
Meditation
10/29/2016    
9:00 am - 10:30 am
Room 6
  • Adult
Meditation
  An ongoing meditation group that welcomes new members. We have a period of sitting meditation followed by readings and group discussion.   Contact:           Marilyn [...]
More Info
Our Community's Most Vulnerable Children
30 Oct
10/30/2016    
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Fireside Room
  • Adult
  • Classes
  • Learning
ARE Fall 2016
The American Medical Association states, “A more vulnerable group does not exist than children removed from the custody of their parents and placed in foster [...]
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Brown Bag Books - Notorious RBG: the Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Brown Bag Books - Notorious RBG: the Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
11/01/2016    
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Fireside Room
  • Adult
  • Learning
  • Ongoing Events
Brown Bag Books
Selection: "Notorious RBG: the Life and TImes of Ruth Bader Ginsburg" (NF) by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik. (The authors)..."write powerfully about the progression of Ginsburg’s [...]
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Elder Journey
01 Nov
11/01/2016    
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Room 6
  • Adult
  • Learning
  • Ongoing Events
  • Seniors
Elder Journey
  All elder members and friends of the UU community are welcome to attend – and you can define elder. One of our ministers leads [...]
More Info
Hike Fremont Older Preserve
05 Nov
11/05/2016    
9:00 am - 2:00 pm
UU Fellowship of Redwood City
Hike
We’ll explore Fremont Older Preserve in the hills south of Cupertino. We’ll start from Stevens Creek County Park and hike up onto a ridge with [...]
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Meditation
Meditation
11/05/2016    
9:00 am - 10:30 am
Room 6
  • Adult
Meditation
  An ongoing meditation group that welcomes new members. We have a period of sitting meditation followed by readings and group discussion.   Contact:           Marilyn [...]
More Info
Campus Workday
Campus Workday
11/05/2016    
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
UUCPA
  • Adult
Workday
WORK DAYS Date:                 1st Saturday every month Time:                 9 am-Noon Location:         UUCPA Campus Contact:           Michael Plass (workday@uucpa.org)   Consider making things even better by joining [...]
More Info
Events on 09/26/2016
26 Sep
Hotel de Zink
26 Sep 16
Palo Alto
Events on 09/27/2016
Thespians
Thespians
27 Sep 16
Palo Alto
27 Sep
Hotel de Zink
27 Sep 16
Palo Alto
Events on 09/28/2016
28 Sep
Hotel de Zink
28 Sep 16
Palo Alto
Events on 09/29/2016
29 Sep
Hotel de Zink
29 Sep 16
Palo Alto
Events on 09/30/2016
30 Sep
Hotel de Zink
30 Sep 16
Palo Alto
Events on 10/01/2016
01 Oct
"Pot of Gold" religious education conference at UUCPA
1 Oct 16
Palo Alto
Meditation
Meditation
1 Oct 16
Palo Alto
Campus Workday
Campus Workday
1 Oct 16
Palo Alto
more...
Events on 10/02/2016
First Sunday Sing Out
First Sunday Sing Out
2 Oct 16
Palo Alto
02 Oct
Environmental Crisis, Religious Education, and the Local Faith Community
2 Oct 16
Palo Alto
02 Oct
Monthly Writing Group
2 Oct 16
Palo Alto
Events on 10/04/2016
Brown Bag Books - Let Me be Frank With You (Fiction) by Richard Ford
Brown Bag Books - Let Me be Frank With You (Fiction) by Richard Ford
4 Oct 16
Palo Alto
04 Oct
Elder Journey
4 Oct 16
Palo Alto
Events on 10/08/2016
Meditation
Meditation
8 Oct 16
Palo Alto
Events on 10/09/2016
2nd Sunday Lunch
2nd Sunday Lunch
9 Oct 16
Palo Alto
09 Oct
Sacred Texts and the Environmental Crisis
9 Oct 16
Palo Alto
Discovering UUCPA
Discovering UUCPA
9 Oct 16
Palo Alto
more...
Events on 10/10/2016
Thespians
Thespians
10 Oct 16
Palo Alto
Events on 10/11/2016
Film Discussion Group
Film Discussion Group
11 Oct 16
Events on 10/14/2016
2nd Friday Bridge Club
2nd Friday Bridge Club
14 Oct 16
Palo Alto
Events on 10/15/2016
Meditation
Meditation
15 Oct 16
Palo Alto
Events on 10/16/2016
16 Oct
Non-traditional Family Traditions for UU Families
16 Oct 16
Palo Alto
Friends of Poetry
Friends of Poetry
16 Oct 16
Palo Alto
Events on 10/18/2016
18 Oct
Elder Journey
18 Oct 16
Palo Alto
Events on 10/21/2016
21 Oct
Thespians
21 Oct 16
Palo Alto
Events on 10/22/2016
Meditation
Meditation
22 Oct 16
Palo Alto
Events on 10/23/2016
4th Sunday Brunch
4th Sunday Brunch
23 Oct 16
Palo Alto
23 Oct
A Gynecologist Considers Women's Reproductive Rights, Choice, and Reproductive Justice
23 Oct 16
Palo Alto
Events on 10/25/2016
Thespians
Thespians
25 Oct 16
Palo Alto
Events on 10/28/2016
28 Oct
Green Sanctuary Fourth Friday Film
28 Oct 16
Palo Alto
Events on 10/29/2016
Meditation
Meditation
29 Oct 16
Palo Alto
Events on 10/30/2016
30 Oct
Our Community's Most Vulnerable Children
30 Oct 16
Palo Alto
Events on 11/01/2016
Brown Bag Books - Notorious RBG: the Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Brown Bag Books - Notorious RBG: the Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
1 Nov 16
Palo Alto
01 Nov
Elder Journey
1 Nov 16
Palo Alto
Events on 11/05/2016
05 Nov
Hike Fremont Older Preserve
5 Nov 16
Redwood City
Meditation
Meditation
5 Nov 16
Palo Alto
Campus Workday
Campus Workday
5 Nov 16
Palo Alto
more...
 

Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto

505 East Charleston Road
Palo Alto, CA 94306

Directions

650-494-0541

uucpa@uucpa.org

We gather,
our different paths entwined,
to deepen our spiritual lives:
nourishing connection,
learning from each other,
caring for each other,
tending to our world.

Meet Our Ministers

Rev. Catherine (Cat) Boyle joined us in 2022. Embracing wonder, embracing curiosity and embracing life is her credo. Cat's background in theater shows up in her creativity in religious education, and infuses her worship with energy.

Learn about all our ministers here.

Justice Partner

Justice Partner - American Muslim Voice (AMV)

The Justice Partner for July is American Muslim Voice (AMV).

AMV is local grassroots, nonviolent, inclusive, civil, immigrant and human rights organization. AMV hosts open houses, peace picnics and peace conventions annually to unite neighbors and strangers alike, including the popular EID celebrations.  They also provide the Muslim perspective through teach-in opportunities at schools, colleges, universities, places of worship, and peace conventions.  Website: https://www.amuslimvoice.org/.

We gather on unceded, stolen land of the Tamien and Ramaytush people. We acknowledge these communities in the interest of truth and justice, awareness and gratitude. In order to dismantle the ongoing legacies of settler colonialism, we pledge to join the Tamien and Ramaytush people whenever they ask us for solidarity.
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