Interfaith Book Study: How to Be an Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi Facilitated by Rev. Nancy Palmer Jones, Senior Minister, First Unitarian Church of San José Choose either Thursday evenings or Saturdays midday: Thursdays, 5:00-6:30 p.m., September 17, 24, October 1, 8, 15 Saturdays, 12:00-1:30 p.m., September 19, 26, October 3, 10, 17 Dr. Kendi invites all of […]

Urban Sanctuary Friends, Pastor Dana will be interviewing Janet Childs who offers her wisdom about healing and transforming the enormous grief we are experiencing as a result COVID, the fires, and the political unraveling around us.  Janet has worked with the Bill Wilson Center for Living with Dying for 45 years and is the Director […]

Dear Poetry People: Elizabeth O'Connor, chronicler of the Church of the Saviour, the DC church Gordon Cosby founded in 1947, wrote Journey Inward Journey Outward, 4 words that have stayed with me these […]

Our own Shirley Kinoshita will be leading a workshop on the ways she uses her art for God and good.  Thanks for sharing your gifts, Shirley! For more information and […]

Hi Urban Sanctuary Friends, In times like these, and as we grow older, we are faced with the challenge of adapting to tremendous amounts of loss.  How do we digest […]

Aftersession led by Iheoma Umez-Eronini When Iheoma learned that a dear friend had died young and very unexpectedly, she was in a state of shock and disbelief.  It seemed unreal.  […]

Dear Proximate Paragons of Poetry: Someone once pointed out that we are often coming or going but not necessarily staying put. The image of a revolving door or a merry-go-round […]

Dear Urban Sanctuary Friends, Next Sunday, Nov 1 is the Feast of All Souls.  It's also the last Sunday we gather before Election Day.  I'm reaching out to you to […]

My dear Urban Sanctuary friends, My heart reaches out to you asking you to stay connected to each other and to pray for our presence in downtown San Jose during […]

Dear Hopers for a Great Sea-Change: The coming week will be something to be alive for. Per Mark Strand (whose bounding poem, "Eating Poetry" was on last week's docket): "…it's […]

Dear Poetry Folklery: I thought last week's discussion was especially nice, although I now wish I had explained a bit about "The Night Game" and the baseball context of it […]

Hi Urban Sanctuary Friends, You never know what a week can bring, and this week it is Ibram Kendi, renowned author of "How to Be Anti-Racist".  Silicon Valley organizations have […]