Nonviolence and peacemaking

“Recent Developments in Civil Rights, 
Racial Justice & Immigrants’ Rights”
with Iván Espinoza-Madrigal

American power has been used to wreak much havoc in the world.
Now we are told that our global role is shrinking. Is that true–and if so, is it good?

Stephen Kinzer is an award-winning foreign correspondent who has covered more than 50 countries on five continents. He writes a world affairs column for the Boston Globe and teaches international relations at Brown University.

“Paying the Price for Peace: 2018 CCB’s Annual Sacco and Vanzetti Award" with S. Brian Willson

Join us live on Facebook for our 11:00 a.m. service!

This Spring, True Colors OUT Youth Theater Troupe is developing a brand new theater performance titled The Traveler’s Guide to Self-Love. This show looks at self-love from the viewpoint of LGBTQ+ youth and allies and utilizes movement to tell stories about their self-love journeys. The stories offer reflections on social systems, phobias, toxic relationships and mental illness, as well as how self-care is used to overcome those barriers.

11:00 a.m. Service: On the occasion of Mother’s Day, Joli Olivetti will share reflections from her first ten months of motherhood, with a particular focus on racism. She asks: “How do I, as a white parent, raise my child to resist white supremacy? How do we have difficult conversations about race with the children in our lives?” Rev. Jolie Olivetti is a newly ordained Unitarian Universalist minister. As a proud former member of Community Church, she is delighted to share her thoughts with you this morning.

Special 3 p.m. Service (No 11 a.m. service): This presentation will combine poetry, prose and a cappella song--my own work and that of other artists--in a presentation intended to remind us all that the arts can perform a kind of sort alchemy. They help us remember that even in life’s difficult moments we can sometimes find elements of beauty, grace and spiritual renewal. 

“Understanding China Through the US Media -- Fact and Fiction” 
with Alan Clemence

Special 3 p.m. Service (No 11 a.m. service):

11 a.m. Service: An environmental non-profit answer to over-development in a floodplain and urban wild in the Boston metropolitan area. The talk will cover 10 years of activity on the site and how the community has benefited and learned from this local conservation work. Ellen Mass who is a retired Science Assistant from Cambridge Publics Schools is also a long-time member of CCB and a peace and environmental activist. Ellen currently heads an environmental non-profit which advocates for conservation of the Alewife area in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Special 3 p.m. Service (No 11 a.m. service):

The Glorious Future is a 20-minute documentary about long-time Community Church friend, Susan McLucas. Susan is an anti-war and human rights activist, with a project against female genital mutilation in Mali. She also teaches people how to ride bicycles. She finds her most direct impact and certainly the most joyful part of her life is at home: transforming adults who never learned to ride into cyclists at the Bicycle Riding School. Changing the world one cyclist at a time.

Join us for lunch after the program.

Special 3:00 p.m. Service
(No 11:00 a.m. service)

Kathy will describe experiences living in a working class area of Kabul, Afghanistan, where people feel trapped by war and impoverishment and then discuss experiences living in a U.S. prison, for protesting U.S. drone warfare, where people likewise feel trapped and struggle with impoverishment. Kathy Kelly received CCB’s Sacco and Vanzetti Award in 2016.

Speak Your Mind! Share a thought, story, memory, or poem with us. Come and break bread with us at our 11 AM brunch, followed by your stories, songs, observations or poems, embellished by the exquisite multi-layered music of young wunderkind violinist Rob Flax.

Soap•box /sōp-bäks/: “something that provides an outlet for delivering opinions.”
-Merriam Webster Dictionary
 

Music by Rob Flax

“Building Power in Boston & Beyond: Resisting Militarism, McCarthyism, Austerity,
Deportations & more” with Dr. Jill Stein
Special 3 p.m. Service (No 11 a.m. service):