Our next luncheon gathering will be on Tuesday, September 1 at noon at Covenant Presbyterian Church. Our host will be The Rev. Margaret Boles. The church will provide lunch and kosher and vegetarian options will be available. Donations for lunch are appreciated, but not required.

In addition to time to socialize, two items will be up for discussion. Margaret Boles will lead a discussion about our interfaith Thanksgiving service (currently scheduled for November 24). Rabbi Shelly Lewis and Rev. Diana Gibson will facilitate a brainstorming session about the possibility of developing a public event with an interfaith panel sharing sacred texts that bear on racism. This would be in support of the wonderful leadership that Rev. Kaloma Smith and others at University AME Zion have already begun to facilitate community conversations about racism after the mass shooting in June at Emanuel AME in Charleston. A recent story on Palo Alto Online summarizes these efforts.