The Commonwealth of Oakland @ Carnegie Mellon University & University of Pittsburgh

The Commonwealth is a new, progressive, Jesus-centered community of faith. People from the city, the universities, and the street are gathering to create a community of peace in Oakland by practicing radical inclusion, generosity, creativity, storytelling, justice and gratitude to God. We celebrate LGBTQIA+ people and invite queer folx to be members and leaders and to have their marriages blessed by the community. We gather: weekly in small groups to talk about books, spirituality, and the Bible; monthly for a free community dinner and worship gathering; monthly for a social justice roundtable; quarterly for neighborhood service projects; and annually for a summer festival and a fall retreat.