On this page, you will find featured activities at UU Santa Fe and in our wider community that can enrich your life and that of those you love. This is a dynamic page with ever-changing content. Visit often. This page and our weekly eNewsletter are your best sources about UU Santa Fe events, news, and initiatives. Website text in copper color is a link to more information somewhere else, click if you want to go there for additional information!
In response to the COVID-19 Pandemic, the UU Santa Fe building is closed until it is safe to meet in public again. Small groups may meet in our Courtyard. You may watch livestream gatherings Sunday at 10:30 am here or recorded services at any time on our YouTube channel.
UU SAnta Fe Featured NEWS and Events At-A-Glance
Most of our gatherings are conducted over Zoom video conferencing format. The gathering's host is responsible for getting the Zoom meeting ID and password to those interested in participating.
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Welcome to UU Santa Fe! We are a busy place as you will find. Newcomers should know that we are interested in community rather than conversion. You don't need to join UU Santa Fe to enjoy our inspiring worship, make meaningful connections, experience transformative learning or participate in justice-making initiatives. By letting us know "what is shifting in you," we can introduce you to the things you will find here that will make your heart sing. To introduce yourself, click here.
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Love is not cancelled. UU Santa Fe expects the loss of rental income, postponed fundraising events, and reductions in plate income and pledge payments. Please continue your UU Santa Fe support as you are able. |
Upcoming Gatherings | Being
Lifelong Learning | Becoming
Family Program
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Community Life | Belonging
There are over 30 groups and 200 people participating in our Community Life Groups. Check our calendar and various web pages for more information. To learn if your group has pivoted to digital gatherings, click here and scroll down.
Justice Making | Engaging
Leadership and UU Santa Fe News
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COVID-19 Pandemic
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Right Now
What's Next?
We are gradually opening our campus but continuing many of our online gatherings. We are preparing to close back down if a COVID-19 resurgence makes it prudent to do so.
We expect future alterations to UU Santa Fe programming in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Please refer to this news page and read our weekly eNewsletter for the latest information. Our Communications Committee is responding to changes as fast as we can. For a comprehensive list of ways to stay connected, click here.
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upcoming Sunday GatheringAugust First Sunday Giving
Change for Change is a weekly collection of the congregation’s loose change collected in our offering basket when we were meeting in public. This year's recipient is the Chainbreaker Collective of Santa Fe. Because you might be interested in contributing to this cause, click here.
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Sunday, August 9 | An Ember of Hope.
Naomi Klein was the speaker at this year’s General Assembly Ware Lecture in which she talked about her newest book, On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal. We will reflect together on some of Klein’s insights and on the cautious optimism with which she ended her talk. *NEW* Every Day Giving | In-Kind Donations
We are beginning a new in-kind donation process. Three 32-gallon containers are now on our portal and accessible most days for you to drop off items that we collect for the underserved in Santa Fe. Bins are carefully marked and "open for business." August In-Kind. For our kick-off, we are collecting for Portfolio Resident Services of Santa Fe. Collection bins are on the portal for 1) food, 2) personal care items, and 3) back to school supplies.
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Thirty-Three Minutes of MemoryRev. Gail recorded June's Thirty-Three Minutes. View this moving ritual here.
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Thirty-Three Minutes of Memory | A Silent Vigil to Honor the Victims of Gun Violence
If you believe too many people have died as the result of gun violence, if you are grieving the gun violence death of a friend or a loved one, if you are working to end gun violence, Rev. Gail and the Interfaith Leadership Alliance of Santa Fe (ILA) invites you to join us on the third of each month for 33 Minutes of Memory. Thirty-Three Minutes of Memory is a somber and beautiful ritual of grief, remembering and recommitment. In addition to participation with the ILA, our UUs United Against Gun Violence Team works to resource and flank local gun violence prevention organizations and initiatives. When we are able to meet publicly again, you can RSVP to attend at our Santa Fe Justice Makers Meetup site. |
UU Mystics Group
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Next Gathering, Tuesday, August 11, 7:15 pm, online. Led by Rev. Gail. Everyone welcome!
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UU Mystics Group
Is your heart hungry? Do you crave silence and chanting, poetry, candlelight and guided meditation? Me too, and sometimes the brightness of Sunday morning just isn’t the right setting for that sort of practice. If you are a mystic at heart, I invite you to join me online from 7:15–8:30 pm on the second-Tuesday-of-the-month. I will bring poetry and candles and my singing bowls. If you will bring your imagination and your spiritual resources, I am confident that together we can create a UU soul circle to nurture the inner light in each of us. Part of this gathering will be practice, part of it will be exploring what we might create together. Please RSVP online to join this Group, click here.—Blessings, Rev. Gail “Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.”―Meister Eckhart |
BECOMING | Lifelong Learning |
Below are highlights of our Family and Adult Learning programs.
FAmily program |
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Below are abbreviated descriptions of our Adult Learning offerings; for complete information, click here then scroll down the page.
Lifelong Learning Groups
“Wisdom tells me I am nothing, |
Our Learning Groups gather online via Zoom video conferencing.
The most important thing is to find out the most important thing.―Zen master, Suzuki Roshi |
Lifelong Learning classes
July Adult Self-Study content posted—over (25) new articles and much more! Use these wide-ranging resources to inspire, challenge and create a life of sacred purpose for yourself and enrich the lives of those around you.—Curated content by Steven Mead, Program Ministry. Particularly recommended: See No Stranger, A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love, Valarie Kaur (a Rev. Gail recommendation) and Naomi Klein, 2020 UUA Ware Lecturer books.
Belonging | COMMUNITY life events |
There are over 30 groups and 200 people participating in our Community Life Groups and events. Check our calendar and various web pages for more information.
Art on Barcelona
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RETURN TO NATURE‚ a new exhibit by mixed media artist Clarity Ann Martin featuring Birds, Butterflies, and Goddesses! There are also some fun, fantasy creatures that are quite colorful and a few extra surprises. More information here.
The exhibit may also be viewed through August by appointment. 337.254.7880. |
Almost Adults Presents
“The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.”―Rita Mae Brown |
Almost Adults Productions presents ongoing LGBTQ+ Online Short Play Reading Series on Zoom. Almost Adults, an inclusive local theatre company and member of Theatre Santa Fe, has been providing creative opportunities for both beginning and seasoned writers, actors, directors, producers, crew members, and local non-profits since 2015.
Bimonthly, Sundays at 4 pm MT on Zoom, Almost Adults will present a series of LGBTQ+ short play programs. It will also be live-streamed on the Almost Adults Facebook page. The next event is August 16. Click here for program details. |
UU SANTA FE Cookbook
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Our new, one-of-a-kind cookbook, Treasured Traditions, is now available. 96 members, friends and family of UU Santa Fe have compiled their tastiest tried-and-true recipes into a single book that will be treasured for generations to come. This mouthwatering cookbook contains 407 recipes—everything you need from appetizers to desserts to pet foods! Each recipe includes the contributor’s name, so it’s easy to find the recipes of friends and loved ones.
Order Now for Yourself and Gifts
“A cook in their kitchen is one of the last remaining monarchies in our world.”😉―Anonymous |
Community Life events hiatus
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We have a rich community life at UU Santa Fe. Until the COVID-19 Pandemic is past and it is safe to gather publicly again, a number of popular UU Santa Fe Community Life events are postponed. They will return!
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Engaging | JUSTICE Making |
Below are initiatives and information regarding our justice activities; for complete information on our justice teams, click here then scroll down the page.
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.—Martin Niemöller
Our Justice Teams
"Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public."—Cornel West |
Justice Teams' Meeting Times | Open to All
In-person meetings will not resume until it is considered safe. Our Justice Teams gather online via Zoom video conferencing. Team leaders are responsible for providing Zoom Meeting IDs to their participants. If you would like to become involved and don't how to contact the Team leader, write Steven Mead.
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Every Day Giving Donation in-Kind
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*NEW* In-Kind Donations Beginning Now
We are beginning a new in-kind donation process. Three 32-gallon containers are now on our portal and accessible most days for you to drop off items for the underserved in Santa Fe. Bins are marked and "open for business." August In-Kind. For our kick-off, we are collecting for Portfolio Resident Services of Santa Fe. Collection bins are on the portal for 1) food, 2) personal care items, and 3) back to school supplies.
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75th Anniversary Hiroshima Day
“Earth is the play ground of our children and their children. We cannot allow it to be the play ground of the nuclear arms of the evil forces.”―Amit Ray, Nuclear Weapons Free World Peace on the Earth |
75th Anniversary Hiroshima Day
August 6, 2020-Online at 8 pm Eastern/5 pm Pacific One-Hour Online Commemoration For the last three and a half years, the New Mexico 75th anniversary Committee, with Pace e Bene, has been planning national in person vigils with great national and local speakers for August 6 and 9, 2020 at Los Alamos, New Mexico. Because of COVID-19, we have moved everything to a one-hour online event to commemorate Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Check it out at HiroshimaDay75.CampaignNonviolence.org Date/Time The online commemoration will begin 8 pm EST/5 pm PST, on Thursday evening, August 6, 2020. It will be hosted by Rev. John Dear, who has helped lead annual Hiroshima day peace vigils for the last nearly twenty years at Los Alamos. “The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.”—Albert Einstein |
Environmental Justice
The presentation with Jim Eagle discussing En-ROADS was recorded. It is available here.
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Environmental Justice team | Education and actionClimate Change. For more information about upcoming ways to take action on climate change please check the events calendar at New Mexico Climate Action here. If you are interested in UU responses to the Climate Crisis, you might want to get on the email list for the UU Ministry for Earth.
Next Environmental Justice Team meeting | Sunday, August 23 | noon via Zoom. More information on the topic soon. “What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?”―Henry David Thoreau, Familiar Letters |
UU the VoteInjustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”―Martin Luther King Jr. “Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests. As long as ours is a representative form of government, and our legislatures are those instruments of government elected directly by and directly representative of the people, the right to elect legislators in a free and unimpaired fashion is a bedrock of our political system.”―Earl Warren 
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Call to Action! UU the Vote is a non-partisan faith initiative to engage our neighbors, educate our communities, mobilize voters, and rally around key ballot initiatives. All through 2020 the UUA is supporting congregations and UU organizations in activating thousands of Unitarian Universalists to mobilize for electoral justice at the local, state and national levels.
Directly or indirectly, the issues so many of us care most deeply about--climate change, LGBTQ rights, immigration, racial justice and more—will be on ballots in 2020. As progressive people of faith we can seize the opportunity that the current electoral cycle offers us to fight for our values, counter voter suppression, expand democracy, and engage in spiritually grounded, values-based issue conversations with other voters in our own communities. Let’s UU the Vote in 2020. Values-Based Issue Discussion articles (the opinions expressed in these articles do not necessarily reflect the views of UU Santa Fe): In 1962, John F. Kennedy famously said, "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." |
shadow pandemic — violence against womenIf your are interested in joining UU Santa Fe's Domestic Violence Awareness Team, contact Leona Stucky-Abbott via our office.
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Raising awareness of the shadow pandemic of violence against women during COVID-19.
Amid the COVID-19 global health crisis a huge surge in domestic violence is being reported. This increase in violence is happening at a time of reduced capacity of service providers to cope with the increased demand for support. Women are locked in with their abusers and are isolated from the people and resources that can best help them. At such a critical time for women, urgent action is needed. UN Women has launched the Shadow Pandemic campaign which gives specific advice on domestic violence with a clear call to action to shine a light on the surge of domestic violence that has accompanied COVID-19 lockdowns. The Shadow Pandemic campaign consists of a comprehensive suite of social assets, including advice from experts on the ground and a Public Service announcement (PSA) film, narrated by Academy Award winning actor Kate Winslet. Please support the campaign using the toolkit and assets to amplify this work. A 60-second film and a press release have gone live on UN Women channels. Please find here the Shadow Pandemic Campaign Toolkit and an Alert letter. |
Governing | UU SANTA FE & Board NEWS |
 Our UU Santa Fe Starfish Model
The Five Arms of our Starfish!
Busy people have goals; productive people have priorities.―Anonymous |
“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”―Peter Drucker July Board of Trustees News. At their July 22 meeting via Zoom, the Board continued to focus on a gradual re-opening of our campus (see above for the latest information), heard a monthly update from the Bylaws Review Task Force and provided input on changes, continued discussion of the draft 2020-2021 budget, approved the Minister's compensation and housing allowance, expressed concern about federal police coming to Albuquerque, approved co-sponsorship of the Hiroshima 75th Anniversary Event, discussed a charter for the COVID-19 Advisory Group and welcomed new members. The next scheduled Board meetings are August 12 (budget and COVID-19 charter) and August 26 via Zoom; all are welcome to attend (please contact Roberta Armstrong via admin@uusantafe.org for joining information).
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Calvin: They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines.
Hobbes: Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
Calvin: We need more special effects and dance numbers.―Bill Watterson