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 7, 2025 at 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Rev. Marcus Liefert
Services Sundays 11 am
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Special Events
Events
7 Dec 25Join us in supporting our neighbors through UUCB’s Annual Food Drive!
This year, the Food Pantry has shared a list of their most-needed items, and together we can make a real difference by meeting these goals.
Cash donations are also gratefully accepted!
Please note “Food Drive” on your donation.
9 Dec 25Please join Rev. Marcus Liefert, Rev. Kathryn Jay, and UU’s from around the Bay Area who support UUSC’s work for a gathering with Rev. Mary Katherine Morn to hear her firsthand stories of the impact of UUSC’s human rights and social justice initiatives.
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 25
On 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.
What is a Death Café?
At Death Café meetings, people “drink tea, eat cake, and talk about death.” Death Café is a recent movement that sponsors discussions in which death is the main topic. The purpose of the “Death Café” movement is to help us come to grips with one of the most taboo subjects in our culture: death. These are NOT support groups or counselling sessions, and there are no pre-set objectives, agendas or themes. There is no intention of leading people to any conclusion, product or course of action. The discussion goes wherever the people who turned up for it take it.Why would anyone come to a Death Café?
In the safe spaces of Death Café meetings we can let our hair down, relax, and share. Those who have already dealt with the “hard stop” at the end of the lives of loved ones have a chance to share experiences, and those who haven’t can explore their own ideas and concerns.For further information about this meeting contact Lee Olivier (510) 604-7734.
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. You do not need to know how to read music, you do not need to know the score perfectly. or even sing gloriously. Come, join the fun, ring in the holidays with great music – Hallelujah! Tickets are $20 general admission and $10 for students. No one turned away for lack of funds.
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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.































