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Rev. Jeremiah Kalendae
Rev. Jeremiah Kalendae serves as our Developmental Minister. Before arriving in Santa Monica, Jeremiah spend a decade ministering with congregations in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has served as a congregational minister, community minister, chaplain, and as a member of the adjunct faculty at our Unitarian Universalist theological school in Berkeley. There he taught multireligious theology and philosophy and counter-oppressive social change. He holds a Master of Divinity degree in theology and ministry from Starr King School for the Ministry, a Master of Social Work degree from Case Western Reserve University, and a Bachelor of Science degree from Baldwin-Wallace University. In addition to being a Unitarian Universalist minister, Jeremiah is a dervish in the Chishtī Order of Sufism. His spiritual background includes Hinduism, Buddhism, Earth-based, and Humanistic spiritualities. In his free time, he enjoys being in nature and, especially, near the ocean, yoga, meditation, social justice activism, vegan cooking, and spending time with family and friends. 
Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur returns to the pulpit
Rev. Stephanie Etzbach-Dale, guest speaker
Rev. Tera Little, Guest Minister
Rev. Tom Rosiello, Stow, MA, guest speaker
Reverence A Portable Virtue

Our faith tradition is short on dogma, but long on reverence, at least as I see it. This sermon is part of my continuing effort to describe an ethics of the soul, which I believe is at the heart of Unitarian Universalism. Music Jonathan Davis, oboe

Revisiting the Secular City

Theologian Harvey Cox, who wrote The Secular City in 1965, once predicted that modernity would bring an end to religion as we know it. He has since changed his mind. What has happened since 1965? The service today will include an observance of D

Rich Cherthoff, Mohammed Lahham and "Occupation 101" Screening
Please join the Peace and Social Justice Committee to hear speakers: Rick Chertoff with Jewish Voices for Peace and Mohammed Lahham, former Gaza resident discuss the lead up to the tragic events that occurred in Gaza this past summer. We will also show a segment from the documentary, "Occupation 101."
Rich Cherthoff, Mohammed Lahham and "Occupation 101" Screening

Please join the Peace and Social Justice Committee to hear speakers: Rick Chertoff with Jewish Voices for Peace and Mohammed Lahham, former Gaza resident discuss the lead up to the tragic events that occurred in Gaza this past summer. We will also show a segment from the documentary, "Occupation 101."

Wednesday, December 10, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m., in the Sanctuary. For more information please contact Cathie Gentile.

 

Right Relations

How can we build authentic, caring relationships with one another, both in church and in the world?