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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
March 15, 2026 at 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Sunday service with Rev. Marcus Leifert
We are the inheritors of a tradition that believes in the sovereign self — the individual who chooses, who transforms, who transcends. But what do we do with the inheritance we never chose? How might we be led by Sankofa, the Akan symbol of the courage to turn and face what you’re already carrying?
Services Sundays 11 am
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Special Events
Events
21 Mar 26On March 21 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!
21 Mar 26Celebrate the spring equinox with us on Saturday, March 21 at 6:30 pm. We’ll mark this turning of the seasons with music, stories, and community in the twilight.
22 Mar 269:30 a.m. In-Person in the Fireside room and streamed to Zoom, we’ll get the answer to “What shapes an artist’s vision over a lifetime?” The Personal Theology Committee is delighted to have painter and sculptor, Kim Thoman, share images from more than forty years of artwork, reflecting on the creative journey behind her recently published book, Kim Thoman: 40 Years of Painting. Click the heading for more about Kim and the Zoom link.
22 Mar 26Please join us for Love Songs and Chocolate, a celebration of tuneful romance and delectable desserts. In a relaxed, cabaret-like setting, many singers from our community share beguiling love songs from the classics to Broadway to jazz.
Stay tuned for more details and link to buy tickets online.
28 Mar 26UUCB will be gathering with the greater interfaith community at UU Oakland at 11:30 AM to center and sing. We will then move together to the Plaza to join the Faith Contingent at the start of the march. In addition, there will be stationary vigils at Albany and El Sobrante, as well as a ZOOM vigil hosted by Lonnie. All can participate in this outpouring of moral vision countering our government’s tyranny.Please wear your yellow shirts and plan to carry signs and congregational banners! There will be sign making materials at the Social Justice tables in the Atrium and Social Hall after the service in the Sundays leading up to the vigil.Please see the image for the schedule.
12 Apr 26Come sing public witness songs and learn
how to be loud without burning your voice out
how to maintain a calm, open-hearted presence, even when you’re singing or speaking in public
22 Apr 26As we look back on our lives and ahead to the future, how do we honor our losses without being defined by them? This workshop explores the shift from living in grief to living with it—integrating our past heartbreaks into a narrative of strength and grace.
17 May 26Come sing public witness songs and learn
how to be loud without burning your voice out
how to maintain a calm, open-hearted presence, even when you’re singing or speaking in public
13 Jul 26Family-friendly (K and up) Ukulele Summer Camp at UUCB July 13-17 is now enrolling. Parents are encouraged to enroll and learn along with their kids, and families with two or more campers enrolled receive a discount.
3 Aug 26August 3 – August 7, 2026
Chalice camp is a fun and meaningful week-long summer day camp for rising 1st through 6th graders. At camp, they learn values while expanding their knowledge and capacity to be articulate about what they believe. The activities during the week include energetic daily outside worship, classic childhood games, drama, art, cooking, community building, and community service based on curriculum developed by religious educators of our faith.
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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.


















