August 11, 2019 • 10 am • Valar Morghulis • Molly Baskette • First Church Berkeley UCC

Based on two dreams described in the morning scripture, Senior Minister Molly Baskette explores the power of dreams. They can give us glimpses of the future and change our lives if we follow them. They are portals to the divine, an entry into mystery.

On Transgender Day of Remembrance Visibility, First Church mourns the lives of transgender people murdered over the last year. Former Emerging Leader Sonny Graves draws on both the pain and the promise of the story of the crucifixion of Jesus.

How big is God? God is so big that Ze cannot be described by any single word (even a gender-neutral pronoun). Director of Youth Ministries Trust Hilton notes that every word we use for God is a metaphor, helping us to touch God’s power in different ways.

Reflecting on the themes of sleep, faith and safety in Psalm 4, Emerging Leader Kim Druziako shares her own stories of survival as she first moved to the Bay Area. After her community is evicted from a warehouse space she turns to sex work to survive.

Rev. Kit Novotny speaks, on Mental Health Sunday, about closing the gap between Us and Them.

Jesus invites his followers to a kind of love that is not attached to results or outcomes. If we are willing to release our expectations, perhaps we will have more time for genuine curiosity about reality. We might expect nothing but hope for everything.

Guest Preacher Rev. Elena Larssen explores the story of Zacchaeus, who has a special encounter with Jesus, and commits to rearranging his life to make room for new things.

June 30, 2019 • 10 am • Free and Fruitful • Kit Novotny

For this all-ages service about upstanding, Phil Porter talks about how we can stand up to those who might be threatening or challenging even in our own community, as well as the ways that we can directly address issues of racism and discrimination.