Create loving community, inspire spiritual growth, and encourage lives of integrity, joy, and service
Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley
The Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley is a welcoming and vibrant congregation, joyously supporting spiritual development guided by individual faith, reason, and conscience.
Our Next Service
December 14, 2025 at 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
What if the true miracle is not that the oil lasted eight nights but that there is oil to burn at all? Perhaps you know more than you might think about living in the plundered, descrated remains of the temple. Perhaps even a miracle happened, even here.
Services Sundays 11 am
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Special Events
Events
10 Dec 25JOIN ON ZOOM
It is time to select our 2026 Good Neighbor recipients, and every UUCB member and friend is invited to learn, listen, and vote. These organizations represent the best of our shared values—feeding neighbors, protecting the vulnerable, advocating for dignity, and strengthening our community. By voting, you help determine where UUCB’s collective generosity and volunteer energy will be focused in 2026.
13 Dec 25Please join us in Holiday Remembrance Activities Saturday, December 13 from 10am to 4pm
We’ll create Loving Community and remember our members 80 and better and those we’re aware have had a rough year. We’ll brighten the season by writing cards and creating remembrance bags, filled with cookies baked and decorated by our children and families.
13 Dec 25On December 13, 2025 at 2pm pacific, please come to the in-person Death Café meeting in UUCB’s Safir Room–sponsored by three members of this church’s Applied UU Buddhist Sangha. This is an ongoing quarterly event here. All are welcome! See more information below.
17 Dec 25Rev. Kathryn Jay and Ministerial Intern Liesl Dees
Holiday Hope and Healing
Amidst holiday bustle, this service offers an extra space of quiet and comfort. We’ll gather for liturgy to acknowledge tenderness and gather strength in community.
20 Dec 25The Winter Solstice is a time to journey inward and reflect on the lessons, joys, and sorrows of the last year. It’s also a celebration of the light and darkness in each of us. Join us for a service of readings, songs, stillness, and ritual.
Bring cookies, drinks, and other nourishing snacks to share.
Let’s welcome the returning light and celebrate the season together.
From 4-6 pm
21 Dec 25Everyone is welcome to come and sing, whether they think of themselves as a singer or not. Or just be in the middle of all the great music. Come, join the fun, ring in the holidays with great music – Hallelujah!
Tickets are General Admission and Student rates available. No one turned away for lack of funds.
25 Jan 26Board of Trustees Candidates Forum
January 26, after Worship Service @ 12:30 pm
Sanctuary, in person and on Zoom
Get to know the Board of Trustees Candidates in this informative and interactive forum beginning after service at 12:30 pm. The outstanding candidates are:Kristen Jensen and Carla McCasland
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1 Lawson Road
Kensington, CA 94707
(510) 525-0302
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Land Acknowledgment
We acknowledge that this church occupies land in Huchiun in the unceded territory of the Chochenyo-speaking Ohlone people. May we have the humility and courage to do our part to restore what has been broken and the wisdom to live into a new solidarity with Indigenous communities and the earth.
































