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Welcome to

UU Santa Fe!

We are a busy place. 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. Introduce yourself and we will help you find the things that will make your heart sing. Please visit our Online Welcome Table.

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Featured Events

INSPIRATION
10:30 am, Fogelson Hall
April 20 | Finding Joy
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Finding Joy in the spirit of Easter and the upcoming Earth Day, Leslie Reambeault and Maj-Britt Eagle offer two paths. We see in the poems of Mary Oliver, the ancient wisdom of the Tao, bowing self away to the landscape and finding "soul" in that inter-being. We also remember an invitation to Practice Resurrection.​
​​CONNECTION
Inviting You In
Sunday, April 27, Fellowship Hall, 8:45 am
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A gathering for newcomers, prospective members and those interested in learning more about UU Santa Fe.

We'll have donuts and coffee. And Rev. Gail and UU Santa Fe members will be available to answer your questions.

​Sign up here or at the Welcome Table on Sunday.

Elizabeth, Janie, Maya and Roberta, the Membership Team
JUSTICE
Advocacy and Democracy
Action Needed!
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  • First, There will be another "Hands Off Rally" at the Round House Saturday, April 19, 12:00 - 1:30 pm (if you last that long).  Please join us!! Wear your yellow hat (or something of that color, like a Side With Love t-shirt, and bring a sign. This is a nation-wide event and we are hoping for an even bigger showing than on April 5. Since it is unlikely to be snowing, I think we have a good shot. Tell a friend!
  • Unfortunately, the so-called SAVE Act passed in the House 4/10/25. This is a voter suppression measure that could disenfranchise millions of voters. It is critically important that it not pass in the Senate, so PLEASE contact our senators and urge them to vote “NO” and fight to defeat this bill. There is additional information on the UUSJ website. You can send emails from the UUSJ page, but it is more effective if you call their offices. Senator Martin Heinrich at (202) 224-5521; Senator Ben Ray Lujan at (202) 224-6621; or the Congressional Switch Board 202-224-3121.
EXPLORING
Circle of Grief | Renee Elsen
Wednesdays, April 30, 10:30 to 12  Library
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Are you saddened and grieving by the challenges to democracy in our nation at this time? Renee will led a group to process the feelings, the emotional struggle, we are having at this challenging time. We will use  the process of Council  developed by the Zen Peacemaker Order as a way to communicate and bear witness to what is going on in the world. We will sit in a circle so we can speak and listen from the heart, not the head. We also move into the space of "not knowing" and being open to what is revealed to us. Renee was trained in the process of council in 1996 at Zen Mountain Center and used it in many settings.She has studied and practiced Zen for 31 years and recently became an official Zen teacher in the lineage of the White Plum Sangha. Limited to 12 people, sign up here.


​UPCOMING EVENTS & GATHERINGS

For more information about our programming, click the navigation tabs above! For news, click on the UU Santa Fe News tab above.
INSPIRATION​
CONNECTION
EXPLORATIONS
Adult Programming​
  • Adult Groups―for regular meeting times click on the Learning Tab above
  • Adult Classes​​​―click on the Learning Tab above for complete info
  • Seated T’ai Chi Chih, Tuesdays, 10-11am MT, Fellowship Hall.  Contact Jim Eagle or Greg for more information.​​​​

Inspiration

Sunday Gatherings

A proper community, we should remember also, is a commonwealth: a place, a resource, an economy. It answers the needs, practical as well as social and spiritual, of its members - among them the need to need one another.—Wendell Berry

At UU Santa Fe, worship is an experience we create together―not in adoration of a god―but rather a celebration of awe, wonder and the sacred. Our Sunday Gatherings are one of the ways we live into community, coming together to greet one another in person or online. We meet at 10:30 am each Sunday morning. Details on each week are found on our Gatherings page.

Connection
There are more than 25 groups and 280 members and friends participating in our Community Life Groups and events—gathering variously onsite, online and hybrid. Check our calendar and various web pages for more information.

Join a GROUP! MEETING TIMES

For more information about our Groups. To get connected with any of these groups, contact our Office Administrator.
FRIENDSHIP GROUPS
  • Acoustic Musicians on Barcelona. 2nd Sundays, 7-8:30 pm in Fogelson Hall. Check Meetup for more information.
  • Art on Barcelona meets as necessary.
  • Informal coffee hour every Sunday after our gathering
  • Different Drummers. 1st & 3rd Sundays, 1:30 pm Fellowship Hall. 
  • Men's Odyssey. 1st Tuesday of every month, 7-8:30 pm in the library; and 3rd Tuesday, 6-7 pm with alternating activities. This is an open friendship group for men.
  • UU Women's Fellowship. 3rd Saturdays, 11 am MT in person & online
NEIGHBORHOOD GROUPS
  • Baca Street. 3rd Saturday, 11 am in-person. 
  • Central Santa Fe. Meeting outdoors when activity and weather allows, dates vary each month, mostly weekends. 
  • El Castillo. Residency, no regular meetings. 
  • Eldorado. 3rd Saturday. 
  • North Central Santa Fe. 3rd Thursday, 4 pm in-person as circumstances allow. 
  • Park Plazas. 1st Saturday, 4 pm in-person. 
  • Southside. 2nd or 3rd Saturday, in-person. 
SPIRITUALITY GROUPS
  • Zia Spirituality 1st & 3rd Tuesdays, 6:30 pm MT online
  • Covenant Groups: Two group are welcoming new  members. Soul Journeys meeting times are varied and Soul Fire meets 2nd Sundays via Zoom at 12:30 pm. Contact the office for more information.
SUPPORT GROUPS
  • Memory Café, every Friday, 2 pm in the Library
If you wish to go fast, go alone. If you wish to go far, go together―
N'Gambay People, Central Africa

ART ON BARCELONA

CREATIVE ALCHEMY: Exploring New Dimensions
April/May/June
Artists Adele Dunne, Jill Cowley, Lisa Flynn and Virginia Asman—all members of UU Santa Fe!--  will each be presenting her own mini-exhibit!  ​

 More information and video

UUWF 

Unitarian Universalist Women's Fellowship (UUWF)
UUWF is a community of women seeking to enrich the lives of its participants as well as the lives of the women and children of Santa Fe through donations to local Santa Fe charities. UUWF activities are open to any woman in the community, and it’s not necessary to be member of UU Santa Fe to participate. 

For more information about UUWF and to receive our emails about upcoming events, email us at [email protected].

Men’s Odyssey (a Men’s Friendship Group)

An odyssey is a long wandering or voyage usually marked by many changes of fortune; an intellectual or spiritual quest. Open to any man in the community, Men’s Odyssey meets at 7 pm in the church library and on Zoom every first Tuesday of the month to discuss matters of mutual interest; on the third Tuesday at 7 pm the group chooses an activity which may or may not be at UU Santa Fe. Past activities have included bowling, poker, pool and bocce ball. In the fall there is a weekend retreat which participants have greatly enjoyed. The group considers service to UU Santa Fe to be an important part of its activities and has, for example, assisted at weddings and memorial services, as well as UU Santa Fe fundraisers. For more information please contact Rod Morgan or the office.

Men's Odyssey Covenant 
We gather for fellowship, mutual support, moral centering and spiritual growth. We hold meetings, share activities, gather for yearly retreats—and share from the heart.

Justice
Below are initiatives and information regarding our justice activities.
Do you have an issue or concern that you would like to see UU Santa Fe form an advocacy group to address? To form a new group, you will need two co-facilitators and at least four additional team members. Contact Mary Ellen Gonzales to explore your idea.

Join a JUSTICE TEAM! MEETING TIMES

Justice Workgroups | Open to All
Our Justice Workgroups are outward focused in serving the needs of the community of Santa Fe and the wider world.
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The Justice Council meets the first Thursday of each month from 6-8 pm via Zoom.

  • Advocacy and Democracy Workgroup. Contact Gayle Boyd. 
  • Environmental Workgroup: 4th Sunday, 12 pm MT, online or hybrid. Contact Jean Darling.​
  • Community Partners with Ongoing Relationships:
          Adelante: Contact Mary Ellen Gonzales
          Afghan Resettlement: Contact Gale Wasserman
          Esperanza (Community Partner): Contact Cheryl Ancell
          Santa Fe Chapter of the NAACP (Community Partner): Contact                      Michael Brown
  • See our Calendar (all the red buttons are justice initiatives) for more information!
UU Santa Fe hosts the Meetup Page, Santa Fe Justice Makers. Many of our justice initiatives and gatherings will appear on this group page. Join Meetup, then join Justice Makers! And visit often.

​Learn more about Justice Teams
Never forget that  justice is what love looks like  in public.—Cornel West

Justice Council

The Justice Council  is participating in a Border Justice Project with a network of New Mexico faith communities (mostly UUs and Friends) that are providing assistance to asylum-seekers at the southern border. These immigrants have entered the U.S. legally and are in shelters in New Mexico waiting to travel to their sponsors elsewhere in the country. Their final asylum hearings will not occur for months or years from now. They have nothing! The UU Fellowship in Silver City collects supplies and transports them to shelters in Deming and Palomas.
We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.―Dorothy Day,
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.―Mohandas Gandhi​

SUPPORTING those in Need

April Giving | The Santa Fe Watershed Association
The Association is a 501c3 community-based organization that works to build a thriving, resilient Santa Fe River watershed through collaboration, stewardship and advocacy that inspires us all to care for our land, water and each other. From trash cleanups to rain garden workshops, field trips to curriculum design, the Living River to Ordinance to watershed planning, SFWA connects our community by centering the common ground beneath our feet and the shared water in our veins.

EXPLORING

Below are highlights of our Family and Adult programs.
The stories we tell ourselves make us who we are.
―Donna Barba Higuera, The Last Cuentista

Inter-generational Programming
ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS!

ADULT LIFELONG EXPLORATIONS

  • Our shared journey is expressed at UU Santa Fe by four core experiences and their corresponding spiritual practices:
  • The experience of Becoming by listening to our deepest self
  • The experience of Belonging by loving our neighbors
  • The experience of Engaging by serving needs greater than our own
  • The experience of Being by opening to life’s gifts.
​Below are abbreviated descriptions of our Adult Explorations offerings.
The most important thing is to find out the most important thing.―Suzuki Roshi, Zen Master

Join a GROUP! MEETING TIMES

​Below are abbreviated descriptions of our Adult Explorations offerings. More info, then scroll down the page. Our Groups gather onsite and online via Zoom video conferencing.
  • ​Freethinker's Forum: A HUUmanist Discussion Group. ​Third Sundays at noon MT in person and on Zoom​. Find out more on the Santa Fe Freethinkers Meetup page. When you RSVP to attend, Meetup provides you the Zoom meeting ID link
  • T'ai Chi Chih Group—In-person weather permitting. Meeting weekly, Tuesdays, 10 am.​ We practice "The 19 Forms." All skill levels and drop-ins welcome. Everyone welcome! 
  • Seated T’ai Chi Chih | Tuesdays, 10-11 am in-person at UU Santa Fe, Fellowship Hall.
  • ​​The UU Mindfulness Meditation Group—the Library and Online. Meets weekly on Monday mornings at 9:30 am MT. At the meeting, we have a guided meditation for 30 minutes and then discuss a short reading. New participants are welcome.​
Learn more about Groups
Wisdom tells me I am nothing, Love tells me I am everything. Between the two my life flows.―Nisargadatta Maharaj


​Adult EXPLORations discussions

ADULT EXPLORATIONS
What Will You Bring
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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.

UU Santa Fe & Board News

Office Hours
  • Sunday 9 am-12 pm
  • Monday-Friday 9 am-3 pm
  • Our office is closed on Saturdays and civic holidays
  • If door is locked, ring bell

UU Santa Fe Board news

Meetings & Important Dates
  • Next meeting Thursday, April 24, 6-8 pm via Zoom. Contact [email protected] for more information.​

​Highlights from the March 27 and March 30, 2025 meetings. The Board:
  • Recognized new members Katy and Susan Yanda.
  • Heard reports from the Pledge and Bylaws Committees.
  • Heard a report from th Confidentiality Task Force.
  • Rev. Gail provided an update on the hiring process for a part-time communications/IT specialist.
  • Discussed the proposed 2025-2026 budget.
  • Thanked the members of the Mardi Gras Planning Team for a successful event.
  • Accepted Mary Beth Kuderik's resignation as Vice President for Finance and from the Board of Trustees.
  • Approinted John Lehman as Acting Vice President for Finance.
  • Approved a resolution designating new signatories for UU Santa Fe financial accounts.
Busy people have goals; productive people have priorities.―Anonymous​