Speaker: Rev. Kristin Grassel Schmidt
Flower Ceremony Sunday
Morning Worship
11:00 to 11:45 a.m.
We will gather on Facebook Live and YouTube. Join us for this beloved annual service celebrating the bouquet of community. In order to celebrate virtually, this year we encourage everyone to send us pictures of flowers to use in the … read more.
Friday Vespers Service
End what has turned out to be an intense week with us for this first-ever UUCB online worship service. We will join together at the same time if not the same physical space for a short service of song, readings, and prayer. This is a great opportunity to give Facebook Live a try before Sunday! Please see the Co-Ministers’ 3/12 email for instructions on how to access worship on Facebook Live.
Binding Our Hearts
Join us this week as we celebrate all we give and receive together here at the UU Church of Berkeley, and all of the good that generosity makes possible in our community. Everyone is invited to stay after the service for lunch and to see the results of our first ever Baking Contest!
Centering Different Stories
Join us this week as we celebrate Black History Month through story, song, preaching, and personal testimony. This is a service for all ages, and childcare is available in the Nursery for babies and young children.
Eyes Wide Open
As the impact of the climate crisis continues to grow, it is tempting to look away, focusing our energy instead on problems that feel small enough to solve. This week in worship, we will consider how our liberal religious values are calling us to engage the impending catastrophe courageously. Show up this Sunday and commit yourself to showing up for our planet.
Winter Solstice Service
The Winter Solstice is a time to journey inward and reflect on the lessons, joys, and sorrows from the past year. It is also a time to celebrate the light and darkness that is in each of us. Join us for a time of readings, reflection, songs, stillness, and ritual in honor of the Solstice.
Play Power
Mr. Rogers famously taught that play is the work of childhood, but what about later in life? This week in worship we will leave work behind and tap into the power that play has to offer us at all ages.
Creating Community
So much of our lives are spent working and sleeping, so how we spend our time apart from work and home is important both for our well-being and to the fabric of our wider communities. On this day when many of our members will be representing our church at Albany and Berkeley’s Solano Stroll, we will reflect on our role and impact as a “third place” in the lives of our members, friends, and beyond.
Why Good Things Happen to Bad People: Universalism for Today
This week in worship we will consider what our liberal faith’s Universalist roots can teach us about justice and grace.