107 West Barcelona Road Santa Fe, New Mexico
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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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INSPIRATION
Blessing of Teacher, Learners and Backpacks!
August 14, 10:30 am, Rev. Gail Marriner
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As part of our exploration of the Stories that Shape Us this month, we will be reflecting on the stories we tell and the stories we were told as we celebrate both those who teach our stories and those who learn them. As a part of this we will be blessing the backpacks and satchels we carry with us on our learning and teaching adventures. Please come, and bring your backpack! |
CONNECTION
Acoustic Musicians on Barcelona
Sunday, August 14, 7-8:30 pm, Fogelson Hall
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Come join us for a fun-filled evening of delightful music! Enjoy folk, rock, jazz and classical offerings from local musicians and singer-songwriters in an intimate setting. Admission is free, families are welcome. If you'd like to perform at the event, please RSVP on Meetup here or contact Dierk Haskin. |
JUSTICE
Letter Writing for Choice
Every Sunday in August, 11:30 am in the Library
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Help Get-Out-The-Vote! This Sunday, and every Sunday through the summer, following the service, in the library. The Advocacy and Democracy Team is hosting Vote Forward parties where we will write letters to registered voters encouraging them to actually go to the polls in November. This is an important election and we want to be sure everyone has their voice heard. |
LEARNING
Summer Reading Challenge
Curated by Rev. Gail Marriner
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One remaining session will inform us this summer. August - Stories That Shape Us | This is the Canon |Discussion August 14 Discussions will be after our Sunday Gathering at a place yet to be determined |
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 once again designed as a hybrid experience with 75 masked and vaccinated folks welcomed in Fogelson Hall with overflow seating in Fellowship.
- Masks are optional outdoors on UU Santa Fe property. Indoor groups must remain masked.
- Vaccine and booster protocols remain in effect.
- Groups, Teams, and Committees decide how they will meet. As we reopen, check with the leader of the gatherings you are interested in to verify how they are meeting–onsite, online, or hybrid.
- 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, July 31 | The Stories that Shape Us | Rev. Gail Marriner
This service will explore the ideas behind the old Harvard University Five Foot Shelf of classics and a new book titled This is the Canon. |
JOIN US FOR COFFEE HOUR!
Visit online with friends for casual conversation and talk about what you heard in the Sunday reflection immediately after our Sunday morning gathering―read your Weekly or Sunday morning newsletter for the Zoom meeting ID link. Newcomers especially welcome.
Visit online with friends for casual conversation and talk about what you heard in the Sunday reflection immediately after our Sunday morning gathering―read your Weekly or Sunday morning newsletter for the Zoom meeting ID link. Newcomers especially welcome.
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SUPPORTING OUR NEIGHBORSEVERY $UNDAY GIVING (financial donations)―New Mexico Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice. They will divide your contributions between the 90 or so organizations across the country who are helping women access abortion care.
EVERYDAY GIVING (donations in kind)―Adelante is asking for shampoo, soap, toilet paper, size 6 and 7 diapers and non perishable snacks for high school students. The collection bins will be by the kitchen pass through. As always your generosity is appreciated.
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.―Mohandas Gandhi |
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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― |
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ART ON BARCELONARuth Weston: Figurative Clay Art and Drawings
July/August/September This exhibit features abstract figurative sculptures of the human figure from stoneware clay (intended for both indoors and outdoors) and drawings by UUSF member, Ruth Weston. The work is a celebration the feminine, with distinctly female subject matter. More info and a preview video |
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UUWF ONLINE and in personUnitarian Universalist Women's Fellowship (UUWF)
The next UUWF Meeting is meeting in person and via Zoom. If you are not on our email list and want to participate by zoom, please send a message to uuwfsantafe@gmail.com and ask to be included. (Men are also welcome!) Coffee & Tea will be served at 10:30 am. The program will begin at 11 am in Fogelson Hall. We will be following the safety guidelines for gatherings as established by UU Santa Fe. UUWF is a community of women seeking to enrich the lives of its members as well as the lives of the women and children of Santa Fe. It is a volunteer organization that donates the proceeds from its programs to local Santa Fe charities. |
Justice
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Below are initiatives and information regarding our justice activities.
Complete information on our justice teams. |
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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.
Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.—Cornel West |
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Afghan Refugee Family ResettlementWe continue to help our family get resettled and make Santa Fe their home. A baby was born in July – the first of his family to become a US citizen! Have you always wanted to tutor in SF Public Schools? If you sign up to be a tutor, you can help students in our family who need lots of support.
Here are a few needs that have popped up:
We can always use more people on our team. You do need to go through a clearance process with Lutheran Family Services, but then the fun begins. Maybe you want to introduce them to the Farmers’ Market, the library, the Children’s Museum. We could use more people willing to get them out to experience our wonderful city. Lutheran Family Services Rocky Mountain (LFSRM) is coordinating the resettlement of refugees throughout New Mexico. Explore their website. We were all immigrants once. |
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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, |
SAVE THE DATE | Sunday, September 4, 12:30 pm | “Militarism and Climate:” Slide show with Jim Janko, Vietnam veteran medic, who studied ecology at UC Berkeley and received a B.S. in Conservation of Natural Resources. Cohosted by UU Santa Fe Environmental Justice and Veterans for Peace. Sandwich makings provided beforehand.
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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 |
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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.
Deal with yourself as an individual worthy of respect, and make everyone else deal with you the same way.―Nikki Giovanni | ||||
Help Get-Out-The-Vote! This Sunday, and every Sunday through the summer, following the service, in the library. The Advocacy and Democracy Team is hosting Vote Forward parties where we will write letters to registered voters encouraging them to actually go to the polls in November. This is an important election and we want to be sure everyone has their voice heard.
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Advocacy and DemocracyAdvocacy and Democracy led by Gayle Boyd and Kitty Sherlock is UU Santa Fe’s newest Justice Workgroup. We will be hosting activities such as letter-writing parties to get the vote out, trainings on effective advocacy, issue updates, and opportunities to support government policies that reflect UU values. Expect to hear more about this group in the coming weeks. If you would like to be on a mailing list and receive updates from this new group, please contact Gayle Boyd via our Office.
Background. UU Santa Fe recently became a partner congregation with Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice (UUSJ), a national level organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., that focuses on national level policies. UUSJ projects, such as policy education, letter writing, petitions, calls to Congress, etc., will be shared with the congregation by way of the new working group. Additionally, an ongoing relationship with another [non-UU advocacy organization, RESULTS, will be continued as part of the new Advocacy and Democracy activities. 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 |
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 Classes
ADULT LEARNING
Summer Reading Challenge
Curated by Rev. Gail Marriner
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One remaining selection will continue to inform us this summer. August - Stories That Shape Us | This is the Canon | Discussion August 14 after our Sunday Gathering at a place yet to be determined
UU Santa Fe & Board News
Summer Office Hours
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UU Santa Fe Board newsMeetings & Important Dates
Busy people have goals; productive people have priorities.―Anonymous |