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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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INSPIRATION
Vulnerability | March Theme
Sunday, March 26
The Vulnerability of Being Authentic Minister Kimi Floyd Reisch x
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 Gabaldo 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
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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 x
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 x
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) |
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.
COVID-19 GUIDANCE
UU Santa Fe COVID Guidelines
- Sunday gatherings are designed as a hybrid experience with 75 masked and vaccinated folks welcomed in Fogelson Hall with overflow seating in Fellowship. You may watch live-stream gatherings here.
- Masks are optional outdoors on UU Santa Fe property. Indoor events over 25 offered by the church will remain mask-required, including worship, but rental groups are permitted to set their own guidelines.
- Groups, Teams, and Committees decide how they will meet. Check with the leader of the gatherings you are interested in to verify how they are meeting–onsite, online, or hybrid, and to check if they are continuing to mask when meeting in-person.
- If you have been diagnosed with COVID and you have been on campus within the previous five days, please let our Office Administrator know.
Inspiration
Upcoming Sunday Gatherings
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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. |
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.―Mohandas Gandhi |
SUPPORTING OUR NEIGHBORSEVERY $UNDAY GIVING (financial donations)―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.
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UU MYSTICS GROUPUU Mystics Group • Online
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 us from 6:30–8 pm MT on the second Tuesday of the month. Bring your imagination and your spiritual resources and I am confident that together we can create a UU soul circle to nurture the inner light in each of us. RSVP online to join this Group.—Blessings, Rev. Gail Nothing here below is profane. On the contrary, everything is sacred. |
Connection
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Join a GROUP! MEETING TIMESFor more information about our Groups. To get connected with any of these groups, contact Program Ministry or our Office Administrator.
FRIENDSHIP GROUPS
NEIGHBORHOOD GROUPS
SPIRITUALITY GROUPS
SUPPORT GROUPS
If you wish to go fast, go alone. If you wish to go far, go together― |
ART ON BARCELONA
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HONORING OUR VETERANS
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Honoring Our Veterans features work by artists who are veterans and artists who are honoring family members who have served! This exhibit was envisioned by artist, psychologist, and art therapist Patricia Keeler* as a way to inform people of the existence of vets after serving in war and the artistic talent that reflects their experience and concerns.
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UUWF IN PERSON and ONLINEUnitarian 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 UUSF to participate. Next UUWF Program will be on April 8 starting at 11:00am. Sam Ruscavage-Barz will be presenting Environmental & Public Health Advocacy Through the Lens of the Climate Crisis. Sam is the Legal Director for WildEarth Guardians and as we celebrate Earth Day in a few weeks, it's the perfect time for Sam to talk with us about the climate crisis. She'll share with us recent victories in New Mexico and across the intermountain west which have helped create a path for a healthy planet in the courts. For more information about UUWF and to receive our emails about upcoming events, email us at uuwfsantafe@gmail.com. |
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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 and third Tuesday of the month to discuss matters of mutual interest. 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.
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Justice
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Below are initiatives and information regarding our justice activities.
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Join a JUSTICE TEAM! MEETING TIMESJustice Teams | Open to All
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 Program Ministry and we will connect you.
You can learn more about the current Partnerships below. Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.—Cornel West |
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Community Partner TeamsUU Santa Fe has an innovative Community Partner Justice Team approach to our justice-making in Santa Fe. In addition to our continuing issue workgroups, UU Santa will partner with local non profit justice organizations with whom to build relationships of trust and provide deep support. Our first partners are Adelante and Esperanza Shelter, led by Mary Ellen Gonzales and Gayle Boyd, and Leona Stucky-Abbott and Cheryl Ancell respectively.
This comprehensive approach will include justice actions (volunteerism, financial and in-kind donations) but also elements of worship, community life and learning. Join a Community Partner Justice Team and participate in this vital work! Community Partnerships are a major UU Santa Fe endeavor and we need everyone's help. 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, |
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ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.―Rachel Carson |
Deal with yourself as an individual worthy of respect, and make everyone else deal with you the same way.―Nikki Giovanni |
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESSIf you are interested in joining either the Esperanza Community Partner or UU Santa Fe's Domestic Violence Awareness Teams, contact Cheryl Ancell or Leona Stucky-Abbott via our office.
Informational domestic violence booklet used by legislators, funders, and media, among others.
On April 6 beginning at 10am, Esperanza Shelter will be delivering a session entitled Domestic Violence Training 101. It will be in Fellowship Hall and will last approximately 90 minutes only. Attendance will be limited; contact Cheryl Ancell if you are interested in attending.
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UUSJ Monthly News (that’s Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice), the UU presence in Washington DC that focuses on legislation and policies that reflect our UU values. UU Santa Fe is a partner congregation with UUSJ and we will now start giving you access to the UUSJ Monthly News Letter. Just follow this link.
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Advocacy and DemocracyAdvocacy and Democracy led by Gayle Boyd and Kitty Sherlock. Advocacy and Democracy brings opportunities to advocate for legislation and regulations that reflects our UU values at the federal, state, and local levels, support our democracy, and learn about relevant social justice and democracy-related issues. Workshops on advocacy and special speakers on relevant topics are being planned. If you would like to be on a mailing list and receive updates from this group, please contact Gayle Boyd via our Office.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'―Isaac Asimov |
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widerWIDER (Working for Inclusive, Diverse & Equitable Results) led by Dave Weiman, Diane Brown and Teresa Tunick is our most recently added Justice Group which grew out to the Widening the Circle of Concern study group. The group will meet the last Thursday of each month via Zoom. This group is guided by work for spiritual healing, moving toward a theology of liberation and the need to be bound together in an interdependent web of relationships.
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Learning
Below are highlights of our Family and Adult Learning programs.
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Family Programming
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ADULT LIFELONG LEARNING
Below are abbreviated descriptions of our Adult Learning offerings.
The most important thing is to find out the most important thing.―Suzuki Roshi, Zen Master |
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Join a LEARNING GROUP! MEETING TIMESBelow are abbreviated descriptions of our Adult Learning offerings. More info, then scroll down the page. Our Learning Groups gather onsite and online via Zoom video conferencing.
Wisdom tells me I am nothing, Love tells me I am everything. Between the two my life flows.―Nisargadatta Maharaj |
Adult Learning discussions
ADULT LEARNING
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Webinar Series for 2023.
Each webinar is presented by Program Ministry Director Kimi Floyd Reisch and takes place via Zoom. Register here.
Thursday, March 30: Beyond Binary
This webinar 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)
Thursday, April 20: March 1942, Internment in Santa Fe
This webinar 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)
Thursday, May 18: Destigmatizing Mental Health and Self Care in Santa Fe
This webinar will discuss how we treat mental health in the United States. It will highlight whole body wellness and focus attention on how joy becomes fuel for well-lived lives. Santa Fe is home to many who come here to retire and thrive. What encourages mental and physical wellness here more than other places? (3rd Principle - Accept One Another)
Thursday, June 15: Juneteenth, Racism, and Inherited Wealth in New Mexico
This webinar will consider how the experiences of Black people migrating into the western territories and states after the Civil War. Many small towns and growing western cities had significant numbers of Black people by 1920, but that does not mean they were accepted or treated equitably. This webinar will discuss the effects of redlining in Albuquerque, the Civil Rights movement in NM, the 1948 Walgreens boycott, the McLellan sit-in in 1960, and more. (4th Principle - Search for Truth and Meaning)
Thursday, July 20: Mistakes and Miracles, Lessons from the UUA Common Read
This webinar and discussion will highlight the 2023 UUA Common Read, Mistakes and Miracles by Nancy Palmer Jones and Karin Lin. We will highlight how reflecting on complicated history can lead to hope. What is in the DNA of this congregation that allows it to thrive and sustain hope? How do we continue to lead toward transformation? (Second session will be held August 3 to complete the final two discussions of the UUA outline on the book)
Thursday, August 17: All About the Bees
This webinar will highlight National Honeybee Day (August 20) and the ecological impacts of humanity on the planet. Participants will be guided through twelve steps to reduce our individual environmental impact and learn about companies who are building their entire business model on doing better in as many ways and places as possible. Efforts to make positive changes at UU Santa Fe will be highlighted. (6th Principle - Improve the Global Community)
Thursday, September 21: The Bracero Program and Immigration/Migration
This webinar will discuss the Bracero program and how this nation has ignored the history of how Mexican and Central American workers helped build the United States, beginning hundreds of years before there was a United States. It will highlight the deep diversity of people and culture that came via migrant workers, and challenge all to consider how quotas and other limitations have made legal immigration a policy rooted in inequality in the United States. (7th Principle - Respect our Interdependence)
Thursday, October 19: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) and the Legacy of Trauma
This webinar will unpack how Adverse Childhood Experiences lead to a lifetime of trauma that can be handed down, generation after generation. It will explore how violence in the home (verbal, emotional, physical, or sexual) can transform our DNA. 61% of adults in the United States have experienced at least one type of ACE before they turned 18, and 1 in 6 adults report that they have experienced four or more. Women, LGBTQ+ people, and people who are not white are significantly more likely to be impacted.
Thursday, November 16: Art, Othering, Democracy, and Resistance
This webinar will consider how art influences our views of the world. It will explore the role of Renaissance artists in framing the Christian narrative, to the art of Jim Crow contained in the Museum of Racist Artifacts, and how political cartoons influence views on modern issues. It will also touch on writing, and how writers include their world view in their words, and the potential impact this has on how we think. (5th Principle - Support Democracy)
No webinar scheduled in December. Happy Holidays!
Each webinar is presented by Program Ministry Director Kimi Floyd Reisch and takes place via Zoom. Register here.
Thursday, March 30: Beyond Binary
This webinar 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)
Thursday, April 20: March 1942, Internment in Santa Fe
This webinar 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)
Thursday, May 18: Destigmatizing Mental Health and Self Care in Santa Fe
This webinar will discuss how we treat mental health in the United States. It will highlight whole body wellness and focus attention on how joy becomes fuel for well-lived lives. Santa Fe is home to many who come here to retire and thrive. What encourages mental and physical wellness here more than other places? (3rd Principle - Accept One Another)
Thursday, June 15: Juneteenth, Racism, and Inherited Wealth in New Mexico
This webinar will consider how the experiences of Black people migrating into the western territories and states after the Civil War. Many small towns and growing western cities had significant numbers of Black people by 1920, but that does not mean they were accepted or treated equitably. This webinar will discuss the effects of redlining in Albuquerque, the Civil Rights movement in NM, the 1948 Walgreens boycott, the McLellan sit-in in 1960, and more. (4th Principle - Search for Truth and Meaning)
Thursday, July 20: Mistakes and Miracles, Lessons from the UUA Common Read
This webinar and discussion will highlight the 2023 UUA Common Read, Mistakes and Miracles by Nancy Palmer Jones and Karin Lin. We will highlight how reflecting on complicated history can lead to hope. What is in the DNA of this congregation that allows it to thrive and sustain hope? How do we continue to lead toward transformation? (Second session will be held August 3 to complete the final two discussions of the UUA outline on the book)
Thursday, August 17: All About the Bees
This webinar will highlight National Honeybee Day (August 20) and the ecological impacts of humanity on the planet. Participants will be guided through twelve steps to reduce our individual environmental impact and learn about companies who are building their entire business model on doing better in as many ways and places as possible. Efforts to make positive changes at UU Santa Fe will be highlighted. (6th Principle - Improve the Global Community)
Thursday, September 21: The Bracero Program and Immigration/Migration
This webinar will discuss the Bracero program and how this nation has ignored the history of how Mexican and Central American workers helped build the United States, beginning hundreds of years before there was a United States. It will highlight the deep diversity of people and culture that came via migrant workers, and challenge all to consider how quotas and other limitations have made legal immigration a policy rooted in inequality in the United States. (7th Principle - Respect our Interdependence)
Thursday, October 19: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) and the Legacy of Trauma
This webinar will unpack how Adverse Childhood Experiences lead to a lifetime of trauma that can be handed down, generation after generation. It will explore how violence in the home (verbal, emotional, physical, or sexual) can transform our DNA. 61% of adults in the United States have experienced at least one type of ACE before they turned 18, and 1 in 6 adults report that they have experienced four or more. Women, LGBTQ+ people, and people who are not white are significantly more likely to be impacted.
Thursday, November 16: Art, Othering, Democracy, and Resistance
This webinar will consider how art influences our views of the world. It will explore the role of Renaissance artists in framing the Christian narrative, to the art of Jim Crow contained in the Museum of Racist Artifacts, and how political cartoons influence views on modern issues. It will also touch on writing, and how writers include their world view in their words, and the potential impact this has on how we think. (5th Principle - Support Democracy)
No webinar scheduled in December. Happy Holidays!
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