Family-Friendly Christmas Service
Join us for our 4:00pm Christmas Eve Service on December 24th. This is a very family friendly service complete with story, candle lighting and ritual. We will be telling the interactive story “The Sounds of Christmas”.
Please bring a star shaped or bell shaped ornament to share.
Parking is provided at the UCLA structure for this special family friendly event!
Date / Time:
Monday, December 24, 2018 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Contact Name:
Kathleen Hogue
RE - Celebration of the Scremin Henning Family's new foster child
"Please join us in a celebration for the Scremin Henning Family who is welcoming their new foster child Eduardo.
Let us come together as a loving community to show our love and support for this wonderful event!"
Date / Time:
Sunday, December 16, 2018 - 10:00am - 11:30am
Room:
Contact Name:
Kathleen Hogue
Green Committee - Net Zero Energy Home Design
Architect Alison Kendall will present Net Zero Energy Green Homes she designed in Culver City and discuss California codes which will require solar PV panels on new homes and increases in energy and water efficiency. She will discuss the role of building codes, green rating systems, and client support for green homes as they help to reduce the contributions of homes to meeting California's commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Please join us at this Green Living Committee event to learn more about Green Home Design.
Future events will ideas for Green Home Upgrades for existing homes.
For more information, contact Alison Kendall, alison@kendallplanning.com.
Date / Time:
Sunday, January 13, 2019 - 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Room:
Contact Name:
Alison Kendall
Adult RE - Book Group
On Sunday, February 3, from 1:15 to 3:30 pm, please join us in the Warren Mathew Conference Room to discuss anti-racist educator Robin DiAngelo’s new book, White Fragility. We will share our responses to the author’s perspectives on implicit bias and structural racism, and explore the unconscious strategies that white folks may engage in to defend against the notion that they are complicit.
From author, academic and preacher Michael Eric Dyson: “A vital, necessary and beautiful book, a bracing call to white folk everywhere to see their whiteness for what it is and to seize the opportunity to make things better now.”
Poet and playwright Claudia Rankine writes that the book “brings language to the emotional structures that make true discussions about racial attitudes difficult.” Books are available for purchase at the Lifespan RE table. 156 pp. All are welcome!
For further information, contact Roberta Frye or Audrey Lyness.
Date / Time:
Sunday, February 3, 2019 - 1:00pm - 4:15pm
Room:
Contact Name:
Audrey Lyness
Second Sunday Cinema: "The Great White Hoax: Donald Trump & the Politics of Race & Class in America" - Sponsored by the Peace & Social Justice Committee
Join us after the Second Sunday Supper for this documentary featuring Tim Wise, a prominent white antiracist author and educator. It explores the rise of Donald Trump and the way Trumpism reflects longstanding white racial resentment in America.
Date / Time:
Sunday, January 13, 2019 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Room:
Contact Name:
Roberta Frye
OFFSITE - Interfaith Community Vigil
There will be an interfaith community vigil for all victims of gun violence at St. Monica’s Catholic Church on Sunday, Dec. 9th from 4:00-5:00pm inside the church which is located at 725 California Ave., Santa Monica.
There will be a program and bell ringing ceremony to remember all victims of gun violence along with taking action.
Date / Time:
Sunday, December 9, 2018 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Room:
AAHS Freethinker Forum
Freethinker Forum: Sexuality and Consent
Join AAHS (Agnostics, Atheists, Humanists and Secularists) of UU Santa Monica for our special November Freethinker Forum on a timely and important topic, featuring Emmalinda MacLean of More Than Sex Ed! Everyone is Welcome.
More info:
Humanism challenges us to be reasonable, compassionate, fair, and accountable without reliance on creed or dogma. Central to Humanist thought is the principle that all people (should!) have inherent dignity and worth, and are entitled to fundamental human rights. But how does that translate to sexuality and relationships? What is a Humanist response to patriarchal forms of oppression or control that persist in our society?
What about recent political developments and the revelations of the #MeToo movement? How do we do a better job of living out our values?
(BTW: What do we mean by “Humanism?” If you’re new to the topic, start here for some background: https://americanhumanist.org/what-is-humanism/)
James will be joined by expert sexuality educator Emmalinda MacLean, co-founder of More Than Sex Ed (http://www.morethansex-ed.org), a local nonprofit that promotes a comprehensive, inclusive, and fact-based understanding of human sexuality to redress negative sexual attitudes, behaviors, and consequences in our culture (such as homophobia, misogyny, sexual harassment, sexual assault, and more). Emmalinda is also well known to many in our community because she has served twice as acting Director of Religious Education at UUSM in recent years.
We'll have time for discussion and sharing our personal viewpoints and experiences, as usual. And Emmalinda will lead us in a fun, interactive game that will help provide a deeper understanding of consent and bodily autonomy.
More about Emmalinda:
Emmalinda MacLean is a proud graduate of the Unitarian Universalist "Our Whole Lives" program, which she attended as a 7th grader, and to which she credits the many healthy, caring, responsible, fulfilling relationships she’s had since. She is a trained OWL (https://www.uua.org/re/owl) facilitator for grades K-12 (and has taught hundreds of students comprehensive sexual health classes over the past 8 years) and is approved to train others as OWL facilitators. Emmalinda is the co-founder and program director of More Than Sex-Ed, a non-profit created by a group of UUs to bring the Our Whole Lives sexuality education curriculum to youth beyond our congregations. She now works as a full-time sex educator, traveling around Los Angeles teaching young people about consent, respect, healthy relationships, and the correct way to put a condom on a banana. She served Emerson Unitarian Universalist Church as Director of Religious Education from 2010 until 2018. She volunteers with children and teens at Camp de Benneville Pines. She holds a BA in theater from UCLA and has also served as the education director of a clown troupe, a Lego-robotics instructor, a children’s theater teacher, and a really good listener.
Facebook Link:
https://www.facebook.com/events/511386442695188/?ti=icl
Date / Time:
Sunday, November 25, 2018 - 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Room:
Contact Name:
Ian Dodd
James Witker
A Star is Born
Theme:
Mystery
Sunday, December 16, 2018
Rev. Greg Ward
Worship Associate:
James Witker
Michael Dowd's evolution of history.
Heart and Soul: A Contemplative Worship Service @ 5 p.m. - "What Does it Mean to Be a Community of Mystery?"
Theme:
Mystery
Sunday, December 9, 2018 - 5:00pm
Catie Grasso
Bring your food a little early and join us for a contemplative worship to give you strength before the holidays. Service is from 5-5:45, the theme is Mystery.
Heart and Soul is a contemplative worship service series that usually occurs on the second Sunday of each month. It is a shorter, more intimate service, with singing, statements, and questions, silence, and sharing. Readings, poems, quotes, and music are drawn from a variety of sources, including the UU Soul Matters Sharing Circle, our hymnals, and popular/folk music.
Please note audio is currently unavailable for Heart & Soul services.
Confessions of an Apocaloptimist
Theme:
Mystery
Sunday, December 9, 2018
Rev. Greg Ward
Worship Associate:
Rima Snyder and Natalie Kahn
Urban Dictionary definition of an Apocaloptimist: 'Someone who knows it's all going to shit, but refuses to lose theirs in the process.' We can all find reasons to panic about the environment, the economy, the rise of corruption and greed or the collapse of human civility. How can we look at the world earnestly - with its capacity to break our heart - and not lose hope? Those who can do that - who can stand amidst impossible odds and still be engaged and idealistic - is an apocaloptimist."