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WORSHIP • TO INPIRE YOU
Be open to life's gifts and something greater than ourselves.​
​SPIRITUALITY • PRACTICES TO GROUND YOU
Direct experience of transcending mystery and wonder. Renew yourself!


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​GET CONNECTED 
Find a place to connect and grow through friendship, spirituality, and support groups.​


WORK FOR Justice
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JUSTICE-MAKING
​We are called to fashion a world that is peaceful, compassionate, just and sustainable. Come, help us fashion a future world worthy of its children.


Experience LifeLong Learning
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​ADULT LEARNING
There are many perspectives, many beliefs, and many truths to be understood. Are you finished learning?
FAMILY PROGRAMMING
We are here to journey with your family as we search for truth, overcome injustice and live a principled life.

Featured Events
featured art images of spring in the desert by Susan E. Viera, used through purchased licensing.
INSPIRATION
Vulnerability | March Theme
Sunday, March 26
The Vulnerability of Being Authentic
​ Minister Kimi Floyd Reisch
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Vulnerability is our theme for the month of March.

This month we will explore the question - how can we be vulnerable enough to grow and change and still protect our fragile hearts. Or is that even possible? Does the vulnerability of open hearts require that we accept the risk?

Sunday, March 26 | The Vulnerability of Being Authentic| Minister Kimi Floyd Reisch
​The last week in March is Transgender Week of Visibility. Around the country, more legislation is being introduced each week targeting the rights of parents to make health decisions for their children and seeking to make it illegal for anyone (children and adult) to access medical care related to gender affirmation. Removing people's right to dignity and care is not new and similar waves have targeted people with disabilities, women, and people who belong to specific racial or ethnic groups has happened throughout our nation's history. This week we will explore how we can demonstrate love and support for people who are vulnerable because they are authentic to their own identity. Special Offering: Human Rights Alliance of Santa Fe
Story: A reading from Dragonfly in Amber by Diane Gabaldon

Our Sunday Giving Partner for March is the Human Rights Alliance of Santa Fe. This organization was founded in 1993 as a response to harmful legislation targeting lesbian and gay people. Their mission is "to educate, engage, encourage, and celebrate LGBTQ+ inclusion, pride, and acceptance for all people." You can learn more or donate on their webpage, and a staff member will join us in worship on March 26 to share more about their work.
​​CONNECTION
Memoir Writing Group sponsored by UUWF
March 30
11 am, UU Santa Fe Library
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The Unitarian Universalist Women's Fellowship at UU Santa Fe is hosting a biweekly memoir writing group. The group is open to all people. Please check the calendar for specific dates.

If you would like to learn more, please contact Terry O'Donnell or just show up on a Thursday and get started sharing your story.

In addition, during March, our friends at Good Grief Network are generously giving Soul Matters members special and free access to their workshop, Writing Through It: Exploratory Journaling for Tumultuous Times. The program and process is easy to engage. Learn more on the Worship page on the UU Santa Fe website. Please consider participating and then joining UUWF for their bimonthly memoir writing group.

Finally, UUWF us also looking for new ways to fulfill its long-term purpose to provide fellowship opportunities for women and to make donations to local non-profits serving women and children in the Santa Fe area. If you have any ideas, please contact Terry or another member of UUWF.
JUSTICE
350 Santa Fe Chapter
Monthly Meeting - Online
Saturday, March 11
10 am-12 pm
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350 Santa Fe is a chapter of the national 350 organization founded in 2008 by author and activist Bill McKibben to fight global warming, keep fossil fuels in the ground and reduce CO2 emissions. Locally we are working to accelerate the transition away from fossil fuels as we collaborate, cooperate and coordinate  with climate crisis fighters in and around Santa Fe.
Our monthly meetings aim to inform the public of our progress, relevant issues and solutions. For more information visit our website.
LEARNING
Webinar Series
 March 30, April 20, 6 pm
Centered in UUA Principles
Monthly through November
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Each webinar will be led by Kimi Floyd Reisch. Each session will include a 45 - 60 minute presentation with 30 minutes for questions and comments after the presentation. Register for the webinar at RSVP Church.

March 30: Beyond Binary
This is an introduction to the diversity of experience beyond sexual and gender binaries. It will cover the science beyond binaries and introduce people to the long history of gender and sexual diversity that existed in the world prior to the colonial era. It will highlight the stories of nonbinary children and adults, and discuss the growing number of children and youth who are authentically themselves, in spite of growing laws targeting them. (1st Principle - Inherent Worth and Dignity)

April 20: March 1942, Internment in Santa Fe
will discuss Japanese internment in Santa Fe and the treatment of Japanese Americans by the United States and neighboring nations. It will highlight that this camp was international, housing people from Mexico and Central America who detained people of Japanese descent at the urging of the United States government and then shipped them north to Santa Fe where they remained for the duration of the war. Going back to the Chinese Exclusion Act, it will focus on how differently immigrants arriving to Angel Island in California were treated compared to those arriving at Ellis Island in New York and how that impacted the decision for internment. (2nd Principle - Justice, Equity, and Compassion)