Newsletter from University Lutheran Chapel

Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost

August 2012

In this Sunday's gospel many people take offense at Jesus' invitation to eat his flesh and drink his blood; even many of Jesus' disciples peel off. Join us for worship as we pray in the Spirit that we might be bold ambassadors of the gospel.

Prayer List

In all things pray! Please remember these petitions in your daily prayers.

Pastor Mitri Raheb, the members of Christmas Lutheran Church in Bethlehem, and all who live in the West Bank and Gaza

For those affected by the wildfires in the West

For all who have cancer

For those affected by the coming hurricane

For Annabelle, Maura, Linda, Scot, and Laura

For all young people who are contemplating "deferred action" on possible deportation, that they might engage their futures

For students who are returning and schools about to start again

For our first year confirmands, Eva, Cole, Helen, and Gwen

Quick Links

Lectionary Resources

Worship Leader sign-up

Small Group sign-up

Green Challenge

August 26 bulletin

Worship Times

11:00 am Sunday

Eucharist

Thursday

Labyrinth in the Sanctuary from 9pm - Midnight.

Worship Leaders

Presider: The Rev. Jeff R. Johnson

Preacher: Carmen Miranda

Music: Andy Boumann

Assisting: Carmen Miranda & Andrew Stevens

Greeter: Andrew Aiken

Sacristan:

Lector: Bennett Falk

Council: Sam Tia

Prayer: Don Green

Family Liaison: Sam Tia

Calendar

Aug 26, 5:00 pm - Resmiranda Vocal Ensemble concert at the Chapel
Aug 30, 6:30 pm - "Magnificat!" (Food & Eucharist with the Campus Community)
Sept 5, 6:30-8:30pm - First Confirmation Class at Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church
Sept 9, Begin using Narrative Lectionary in Sunday worship
Sept 26, Founder's Day at PLTS, Lecture on Bonhoeffer's Postracial Blues
Oct 10, Star Struck - A Red Carpet Gala in support of San Francisco Night Ministry
Oct 13 - FYI Faith, Youth, and Immigration Conference

Welcome Logan!

Our new intern Logan joined us this week and will be here for a new year of campus ministry.

Born and raised in Lee's Summit, MO, Logan came to California by way of New York and New England. Ze graduated in 2011 from Vassar College with a B.A. in Religion with other interests in the study of sex, sexuality, and gender.

While an undergrad ze was heavily involved in queer community organizing and co-founded a student organization to represent sex- and gender-variant individuals on campus and in the broader community.

After college Logan joined the Episcopal Service Corps at St. HIlda's House in New Haven, CT, where ze worked with AIDS Project New Haven. A second year with the ESC brought hir to Berkeley. Hir current interests include the intersection of Christian theology and queer theory, identity construction, intentionally troubling norms of sex and gender, and learning to cook tasty vegan food.

Note: Ze and hir are singular third person pronouns that give an alternative to she/her and he/him. They are pronounced "zee" and "heer."

Labyrinth Tonight!

Tonight (Thursday) at 9:00 pm, the Sanctuary will be covered with our Labyrinth. Come for walking meditation, great music, and snacks and welcome students back to Cal!

9 pm til midnight!

Cal Performance

Cal Performances are starting up soon with many exciting events!

Theater, Jazz, World Stage, Early Music, Philharmonica Orchestra and much, much more.

Check out the billboard in the sanctuary and sign up for the events you would like to go to. If we get a group of 5 or more, it's a party! We'll meet for dinner and then go to the event together.

Bonhoeffer's (and our) Postracial Blues

The election (and now the possible reelection) of Barack Obama to the U.S. presidency hailed for many the dawning of the postracial condition. And yet virtually from day-one of his presidency, unpleasant racial realities intruded upon our postracial cultural fantasies-with issues of religion and Christian identity being quite often front-and-center.

On Founder's Day at PLTS, J. Kameron Carter, Associate Professor in Theology and Black Church Studies at Duke Divinity School turns to an unlikely place in his lecture - to a 1940s German prison cell and to Dietrich Bonhoeffer's prison poetry, with its African American blues signature -- to examine the postracial condition of race or his and our postracial blues.

Come to Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary (PLTS) for Founders' Day, September 26, 2012. Click here for more information.