Community Events
“We are Called to Be an Alternative to Ruin” at San Damiano
San Damiano Retreat Center 710 Highland Dr., DanvilleFranciscan retreat master Fr. Tom Hartle of Boston will share how we can be a transformative presence in a broken and fractured world.
Tickling Giants Film and Activist Fair
Martinez Middle School 1600 Court Street, MartinezWe are thrilled to invite you to a special screening of Tickling Giants, the 2016 documentary by Sara Taksler. Tickling Giants tells the powerful story of how one person ("the Egyptian Jon Stewart") stood up to an entire regime with no weapon but his biting wit. Tickets are free – [...]
“The Healing Power of Divine Love”
First Church of Christ, Scientist 650 Danville Blvd., Danville“Maryl Walters, C.S.B., of St. Louis, Missouri, has been successfully and consistently healing people of their physical and moral issues for some 40 years through the practical Christianity as taught in Christian Science. For the last 23 years she has been lecturing around the world and teaching the science of [...]
YOUTH, GOD, and TERROR: What attracts Westerners to join ISIS?
Congregation B'nai Shalom 74 Eckley Lane, Walnut CreekMuch has been said and written about why Western youth travel to join ISIS, or commit acts of terror in our homeland in its name. Whether or not they misunderstand Islam, and whether or not they also have disturbing mental or social issues, it is a specific, radical interpretation of [...]