Experience UU Santa Fe

Deepen your humanity. Cultivate wisdom. Open up to life's gifts.


BE inspiRED
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WORSHIP • TO INSPIRE 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!


BUILD Community 
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​GET TO KNOW US
We are covenantal. We hold one another in a deep and abiding embrace.
We promise. Join us.
​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 EXPLORATIONS
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
INSPIRATION
10:30 am, Fogelson Hall
December 15 |  Your Presence is the Present | Rev. Gail Marriner​​
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We move from revels to contemplation as we consider the most valuable gift we can give or receive this holiday season. The gift of attention.
​​CONNECTION
Holiday Events​
What's Happening
​at UU Santa Fe in December
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Holiday schedule to print or save

Dec 15 “Your Presence is the Present.” We move from reveling to contemplation as we consider the most valuable gift we can give or receive this holiday season—the gift of attention. Rev. Gail preaching.

Dec 22 “More than Darkness and Light: A Celebration of the Solstice.” In this humanist and earth centered neopagan celebration led by Rev. Gail we celebrate the dance of the light and the dark that makes all life on earth possible!

Dec 24, 5:30 pm “Light a lot of Candles, Sing a lot of Songs.” Join Rev. Gail and Hazzan Cindy Freedman for a UU celebration of our Jewish and Christian holiday heritage. Our service will start with “Light One Candle” and end with “Silent Night” and the passing of the light.

Dec 25, 6:30 pm “Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.” A perfect UU end to a UU Christmas day. Join the Upstart Readers (sister organization to the Upstart Crows) for a costumed dramatic reading of Charles Dickens’ beloved tale. Victorian High Tea during intermission. Tickets $20 on the Upstart Crows website (UUs-Bring treats and get in free. No treats? Tickets are $10).

Dec 29 “Habiri Gani? Kwanzaa!” Our friends from the NAACP will be celebrating Kwanzaa in Fogelson Hall on Sunday afternoon and are generously sharing their special guest, Professor Doris Fields with UU Santa Fe for our morning gathering.

Dec 31, 4:30 “Ablaze with Light” As the sun sets on the last day of 2024, we are invited to celebrate Hanukkah and the New Year with our friends at HaMakom, lighting ALL the menorahs, singing traditional Jewish songs and feasting on latkes and applesauce. UU Santa Fe folk are invited to bring their own menorahs and additional celebratory foods. Gingerbread, rosettes or dark chocolate anyone? 
JUSTICE
Esperanza Holiday Gift Tree
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 November  24 through December 15
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The Justice Council is hosting an Esperanza Holiday Gift Tree for youth and their mothers currently housed at the Esperanza Shelter. This will be the fourth year that UU Santa Fe has generously contributed to a holiday of hope for families affected by domestic violence. You will find our tree in Fogelson Hall decorated with paper “ornaments” containing a number, the name and age of the recipient, and the gift requested: 
1. Select your “ornament”
2. Sign the “gift adoption book” in the foyer on the line next to your ornament’s number. Please give us an email or telephone number, too, in case we need to contact you.
3. Purchase the gift (or gift card), wrap it, put the ornament tag on the outside, and place it under the tree no later than December 15. ​
EXPLORING
What Will You Bring?
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Winter/ Spring 2025
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UU Santa Fe Explorations adult learning programs depends of volunteers. Do you have a burning topic related to personal growth, spiritual wonder, practical life experience, or other topics that you would like to explore? Others in our community might be willing to explore with you. Please bring your suggestions to our Explorations steering team: Mary Ellen Gonzales, Mike Owens or Sherry Kraemer.

We are looking for new topics for this coming winter and spring. Some topics we have planned are:
  • Using the book by Parker Palmer, On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity & Getting Old to explore our own journey as we get older.
  • “Transcendence, Science and Poetry” using some new writing on our human relations to the natural world, some writings of Margaret Fuller (one of our Transcendentalist ancestors) and poetry to explore that relationship.