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Peace and Social Justice Committee meeting
Peace and Social Justice Committee Program on surveillance and military drones
Peace and Social Justice Meeting
Peace and Social Justice Meeting
Peace and Social Justice meeting
Peace and Social Justice Meeting
Peace and Social Justice Meeting
Peace Begins at Home

(One Service at 1030 a.m.) These days there is so much to do work, family and social justice pursuits all demand our attention. Thomas Merton says that overcommitting causes as much violence as other sources. Are we doing more harm by not attending to ourselves in the midst of all these demands? The Rev. Sandie Richards is Minister at the Church in Ocean Park, and works alongside Judith in the Westside Interfaith Council and on social justice issues in Santa Monica. Music David Ellis, Guitar

Peggy Butler Appreciation Tea
People Get Ready (C. Mayfield) - Jyvonne Haskin
Perfect Strangers
Church member and UCLA Oncology Chaplain Michael Eselun will explore our relationship to strangers. We are often told from a young age, “Don’t talk to strangers,” only to find that sometimes such encounters might be “perfect.”
 
Michael Eselun, a certified chaplain, serves as the chaplain for the Simms-Mann/UCLA Center for Integrative Oncology.   He is also a co-founder and chair of a non- profit, volunteer anti-homophobia speakers bureau called GLIDE, Gays and Lesbians Initiating Dialogue for Equality. Over the last 20-plus years, Michael and his fellow speakers have spoken to an audience of over 200,000 students, teachers, and other various groups and agencies in the LA area about homophobia.  He has a TED talk available on-line via You Tube, called “It’s Magic” and you can find out more about him at www.michaeleselun.com.
Perfect Strangers (one service at 10 a.m.)
What is your relationship with perfection? Do you have a history of trying to be perfect... to be
noticed... to be appreciated... to be loved? Trying to be perfect may sometimes get us attention,
but it comes with a price: people only know us for what we do and not who we are. And in the
process, we become perfect strangers.