On Mental Health Sunday, Rachel Bauman shares her own story about the way mental health issues in her family affected her as she was growing up. She invokes the healing stories from scripture that show how Jesus was saw and named illness and challenge.

October 27, 2019 • 10 am • “Male Female” • Jane Arc • First Church Berkeley UCC Luke 7:37-50

Senior Minister Molly Baskette notices that each of the characters in the story of Moses' birth was only doing what one would expect in the situation. It was God’s weaving together of these individual actions that created the extraordinary event.

April 5, 2020 • 10 am • “A Humble King” • Rev. Sandhya Jha • First Church Berkeley UCC firstchurchberkeley.org

March 8, 2020 • 10 am • “Space for Astonishment” • Kit Novotny • First Church Berkeley UCC

Senior Minister Molly Baskette reflects on the ephemeral nature of our own lives and all that stands around us. She also suggests, though, that it is neither surprising nor inappropriate that we might cry out to God in sorrow and anger “How could you?”

Senior Minister Molly Baskette wonders aloud whether it is as easy and exclusive as it sounds to claim Jesus as one’s personal Lord and Savior or whether salvation is for the whole world—a “package deal” in which everyone is saved.

March 22, 2020 • 10 am • “I Am the Light” • Jane Arc • First Church Berkeley UCC

Young Adult Minister Kit Novotny notes that as human beings we will fall short of the glory of God. Like other sensitive bodies, John the Baptist. can see this reality and calls his people to a new thing, immersing them in the water of the Jordan River.

June 14, 2020 • 10 am • Rev. Lynice Pinkard Rev. Molly Baskette • First Church Berkeley UCC firstchurchberkeley.org