With our liberal values under constant attack, it’s temping to rush from emergency to emergency, tossing our attention, time and treasure at the latest travesty. Working to protect our neighbors and our rights as Americans is vital, AND overwhelming. Join us this morning for reflections on the importance of being as compassionate to ourselves as … Continue reading Put Your Own Oxygen Mask On First
The service will focus on what we can do today in our homes, communities, and congregations in the face of the accelerating climate crisis. Being informed helps us choose public policy to accelerate a just transition away from fossil fuels to renewable energy. It is feasible and cheaper to build an energy system based on renewable energy, but there are forces opposing … Continue reading Energy: Caring for Creation
We welcome Debra Crow of the Guide Dogs for the Blind (GDB) Berkeley Puppy Raising Club. She’ll be accompanied by her foster puppy Namaka who will one day be a certified guide dog. Join us after the potluck for an interactive session on assisting people who are visually impaired. Learn how to: approach a person … Continue reading Sunday Assembly Celebration – Guide Dogs
Can the old-world tradition of keening help us navigate the grief of our times? Keening is a Scots-Irish Gaelic tradition of lamentation for the Dead. More than merely expressing grief, keening was ritualistically performed by women to help ferry the soul of the recently deceased into the Otherworld. In modern times we know that vocalizing … Continue reading Keening; Grieving for a Dying World
Our faith has always held that love is a verb but what if we understood love as an organizing force, one that moves people from isolated feeling into collective power capable of transforming the systems that shape our lives. Rooted in our Unitarian Universalist tradition and the lived experience of working people, we will lift … Continue reading Organized Love, Organized Power
In our wondrous world, there are mysteries around every corner. Living in a culture that values science and rationality, how does the unknowable fit into our lives? Join us today for reflections on the value of mystery with our guest speaker, Rev. Bonnie Dlott, who identifies as both a scientist and a mystic. Since retiring … Continue reading Mystery and Meaning
Maker Faire Founder Dale Dougherty will share how he put into practice “If you imagine it, you can make it” to make a huge event beloved in the Bay Area and beyond for the past two decades. The first Maker Faire in 2006 at the San Mateo Expo Center brought an explosion of art, craft, … Continue reading Sunday Assembly East Bay Celebration – 20 Years of Maker Faire
What is it you need when you are awake at 3:00am and your mind is racing? What can you recall when you need that grounding for your windblown worries? Maybe this is it! Perhaps here is something which will help when you struggle with those with whom you disagree. Try it! Oakland resident, Bob Reid … Continue reading There’s a Light in You
I have noticed the widespread use of the term Unitarian or UU as the preferred abbreviations of our 10-syllable name of Unitarian Universalism. With either shortening, Universalist goes unnamed. The joyful, activist, open-minded, welcoming religious choice of Universalism by the Working, Artisan and Agrarian classes gets short shrift. Within our own religious movement how much … Continue reading Universalism, Perhaps Our Better Half
The gift of perspective can be an affirming source of comfort, but it can also cause us pain. What can we do if we realize that we might have been much better off if we had only known then what we know now? Join us today for reflections about perspective, grief, and the grace that … Continue reading When Nothing Can Be Done
