Category: Movie Night

Dear Friends: Here are this weekend's events at Berkeley Friends Church: 1) It seems like the last one was just last week, but tomorrow, Friday, 7/26, is our monthly Friday Night at the Movies. This month we present the 2009 biopic Creation, which captures the legendary scientist Charles Darwin in a period of intense mourning--and expansive intellectual discovery--following the untimely death of his young daughter, Annie. Darwin's work on his groundbreaking book On the Origin of Species and his questioning of God's existence parallel one another, much to the chagrin of his devout wife. ADMISSION IS FREE! Please invite your neighbors and friends. Refreshments at 6:30 PM, film at 7:00 PM. Discussion follows the screening. 2) On Saturday, 7/27, we will gather with family and Friends of our member Andrew…

Dear Friends: Here are this weekend's events at Berkeley Friends Church: 1) Tomorrow, Friday, 6/28, is our monthly Friday Night at the Movies. This month's offering is the 2008 documentary  At the Death House Door. This sobering film examines the state of the death penalty in Texas (which, just this week, executed its 500th inmate since 1976). We follow the remarkable career and spiritual journey of prison chaplain Carroll Pickett. Initially pro-execution, Pickett became an anti-death penalty activist after serving 15 years as the death house chaplain in the infamous "Walls" prison unit in Huntsville. ADMISSION IS FREE! Please invite your neighbors and friends. Refreshments at 6:30 PM, film at 7:00 PM. Discussion follows the screening. 2) On Saturday, 6/29, the Knit & Crochet Fellowship meets at 11 AM in…

Dear Friends: Here are this weekend's events at Berkeley Friends Church: 1) Tomorrow, Friday, 5/24, is our monthly Friday Night at the Movies. This time we present the 2004 drama James's Journey to Jerusalem. In his remote African village, young James is chosen to undertake a mission: a pilgrimage to holy Jerusalem. But Israel is no longer the Holy Land that James and his people imagined. Arrested for entering the country illegally, James's journey takes him through the cruel heart of our globalized economy. See attached flyer for more details. ADMISSION IS FREE! Please invite your neighbors and friends. Refreshments at 6:30 PM, film at 7:00 PM. Discussion follows the screening. 2) On Sunday, 5/26, at 10 AM, our regular Sunday School classes for adults & children will convene, including…

Dear Friends: Here are this weekend's upcoming happenings at Berkeley Friends Church: 1) Tomorrow, Friday, 4/26, our monthly Friday Night at the Movies presents Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai. This powerful 2008 documentary tells the inspiring story of Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai. Maathai's simple act of planting trees grew into Kenya's “Greenbelt Movement,” a globally-recognized mobilization of women to rally against deforestation, poverty, and government corruption, which eventually became a national political force that helped to bring down the 24-year presidency of Daniel Arap Moi. ADMISSION IS FREE!  Refreshments at 6:30 PM, film at 7:00 PM. Discussion to follow. Also: Some of you may not know that our Friend Stanley Ngesa will be returning to Kenya--possibly indefinitely--this coming Monday, 4/29. Because of a commitment made…