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
January 25, 2026 at 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Rev. Marcus Liefert.
Joy rarely arrives as pure light. It is colored by grief, memory, fear, and longing—beautiful, complex, and sometimes fragile. We honor joy not as a reward for spiritual success, but as light refracted through real lives, asking how communities can celebrate brightness without demanding it.
Services Sundays 11 am
Join us in person, live on Facebook, or live on YouTube
Special Events
Events
18 Jan 26Sign Ups for Chalice Circles are happening now! Please check out this schedule to see which one works best for you!
Sign up now to get your first choice. Two Circles have already filled up! Please contact Natalie Campbell to enroll, or if you have any questions. Thank you!
25 Jan 26Are you caring for an aging parent? Join us for a supportive Discussion Circle where we’ll explore the challenges and emotions of this journey together. Through readings, reflection, and deep sharing, we’ll cover themes including grief and loss, complex emotions and changing roles, self-care and boundaries, and community support.
25 Jan 26Board of Trustees Candidates Forum
January 25, 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:David Rosales (Incumbent)
Karin Werner
Ryan Devine
1 Feb 26Every one is welcomed to join us at 1 pm to help turn the fountain in Bridget’s Well with flowers, candles and other offerings…we may even be making Bridget Crosses right there.
Then at 1:30 will begin The Midwinter celebration of Candlemas.
For more information contact Carol Carlisle (510)967-3672
15 Feb 26We are saddened to share that Rev. Sue Magidson died on the evening of Friday January 2, in a beautiful light-filled apartment in North Berkeley she chose for the last chapter of her life. She was surrounded in her final weeks by a circle of loved ones she invited to accompany her through a third journey with cancer.
Sue joined as a member of UUCB in 2000, and was eventually called to the ministry and ordained by our congregation, becoming an affiliated Community Minister. She served as a part of the chaplain team at UUCB, and also enjoyed preaching, teaching, and officiating at weddings and memorial services.
A memorial service will be held at UUCB on February 15, 2026, at 2:30 pm. All are invited to attend or to watch the live-stream on our Facebook Live or YouTube channels.
You may click here to read her full obituary or here to watch her last sermon at UUCB.
17 Feb 26Tuesdays, Feb. 17-April 28, 6:30-8 pm
WEAV is a curriculum designed by Starr King School for the Ministry (SKSM) for UU congregations to build spiritual community that involves counter-oppressive spiritual engagement. Space is limited, and we ask that participants commit to all 10 sessions.
1 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.
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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.





























