Jeremiah  8:8-11, 18-32

John 17:6-19

"And Still We Are Not Saved"

 On Sunday we welcome the Rev. Peter Laarman, Director of Progressive Christians Uniting to our community to celebrate Peace and Justice Sunday.  A UCC pastor who served for ten years as the Senior Pastor of the historic Judson Memorial Church in Manhattan, Peter Laarman will preach in worship and present the work of Progressive Christians Uniting in a Forum after worship from 11:30AM until 12:30PM.  This celebration is sponsored by the Peace and Justice Committee and paid for by the funds raised at our recent Seder and CPK dining fundraiser.  Come and join us!

Peter Laarman Bio

Rev. Peter Laarman is executive director of Progressive Christians Uniting, a 15-year-old network of individuals and congregations in Southern California concerned with public justice and leadership formation. 

PCU amplifies the voice and impact of the progressive faith community through strategic social action programs, the development and dissemination of theological resources, and leadership training for lay leaders in particular.  

In past years PCU's public justice energies have been focused in two primary arenas: economic and environmental sustainability and advocacy for LGBTQ equality in church and society.  More recently PCU has been working to forge a large, diverse, and effective network of California faith communities that will commit to work closely together and with leading secular allies to press for significant structural reforms in the way the state does its public business. This project is called California Faith Action and is supported by the Ford Foundation and others.

Peter Laarman is an ordained United Church of Christ minister who served for ten years as Senior Minister of historic Judson Memorial Church in New York City before coming to California to lead PCU in 2004. He is a second- career clergy leader who worked for 20 years as a community organizer and as a communications specialist for the trade union movement before training

for the ministry. Mr. Laarman studied English literature as an undergraduate at Brown. He received his M. Div. degree from Yale Divinity School in 1993 and was given the school's William Sloane Coffin '56 Peace and Justice Award in 2009. This spring he was honored by Intersections International in New York for his coordination of the project that led to the launching of Believe Out Loud, now a rapidly-growing social media resource for LGBT concerns in relation to American Christianity.

Peter Laarman writes and speaks frequently on a variety of subjects and serves as a contributing editor for the daily online magazine Religion Dispatches. In 2006 he edited a book of essays on religion and public life that was published by Boston's Beacon Press. Titled Getting On Message: Challenging the Christian Right from the Heart of the Gospel, the collection includes original reflections from 14 noted thinkers and activists, including Marilynne Robinson, James Lawson, Bill McKibben, and Joan Chittister.

Also this Sunday

Pasadena Marathon: 

The Pasadena Marathon will be taking place again this Sunday. Two helpful documents for people trying to get to church on Sunday are:

Click for information regarding street closure map.

Click for specific instruction for people coming to church, though some might find the map more useful.

Church School: We will have a combined class with a teacher TBA and Neva Orr assisting in Room 232.