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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Featured Events
INSPIRATION
Responding to Uvalde–What We Can Do
Rev. Gail Marriner
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Oh my friends, Our hearts break for the victims of the Uvalde shooting, and for their classmates, their teachers, their families and the whole community of Uvalde. Tragedy upon tragedy. One mass shooting following another: people of color shopping for groceries, or going to church, or children and teachers in school. All quietly living their lives – minding their own business. All mowed down by gunfire. How long will this go on? We cannot console ourselves that this was an aberration – mass shootings happen daily in the United States and school shootings more often than you would guess 27 in this year alone. Something is very wrong. As horrific and tragic as each of these shootings is, incidents like these will continue until we do something to stop them. The moral arc of the universe will never bend toward justice on this issue unless we help it. Unless we push and pull and protest and vote. Unless we insist that protecting the lives of children is more important than the free and unregulated access to firearms and put regulations and support systems and educational programs in place to limit access to guns and to support a more peaceful and non-violent way of being. We are the ones that need to do this, my friends. Not someone far away in Washington, or someone with more authority or compassion or power. Each one of us needs to do something to nudge that moral arc every single day. Death has no meaning except the meaning we give it by our actions. And while it will be small consolation to the parents and friends of the children of Uvalde that our nation has finally been galvanized to action and passed background check legislation and other common sense gun safety measures, at least their deaths will have resulted in less grief for the children who come after them. At least their parents will know we cared enough to get to work and change things. So call your senator. Volunteer in your public school. Watch your tone of voice when you write that letter to the editor. Show up for that nonviolence training. Vote! Do something. If all of us act, our actions will make the world safer for us, for our neighbors and for all of our children. Blessings, Rev. Gail |
CONNECTION
2022 Mega Sale - June 2-4
Mark Your Calendars! one of the largest and best organized "garage" sales in town!
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Mega Sale Schedule
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JUSTICE
Advocacy and Democracy
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Advocacy and Democracy is UU Santa Fe’s newest Social Justice Working Group. 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 this 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. |
LEARNING
Summer Reading Challenge
Curated by Rev. Gail Marriner
Three Selections x
Three selections that will inform us this summer.
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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 and for small groups indoors where all of the participants agree that they feel safe unmasking.
- Vaccine and booster protocols remain in effect.
- Indoor groups of more than 20 people must be masked.
- 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
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Upcoming Sunday GatheringsSunday, May 29 | Memorial Day | Rev. Gail Marriner
On this Memorial Day we grieve the devastating consequences of wars in Ukraine, Afghanistan and so many other places. We reflect on what it takes to create a culture of peace and what we can do right now to support a more peaceful world. Learn about the Interfaith Leadership Alliance “30 Minutes of Peace” gatherings; “Peaceful Santa Fe,” a response to John Dear’s Peaceful Cities Project; and about the UUSJ, (UUs for Social Justice) a UU Lobbying group in DC that is working to make democracy work better. Weather and air quality permitting this will be an outdoor service. 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. |
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SUPPORTING OUR NEIGHBORS*NEW* EVERYDAY GIVING (in-kind donations). NM Wildfire Relief
Our Donation Barrels this month will be collecting items for the wildfire fire fighters. The most urgent need the next two weeks is for baby wipes. Please bring them to church and place them in our donation barrels in our lobby and we will get them to the fire station on Siler Road. 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 BARCELONATEXTURES, MOSTLY ORGANIC – New Work by Jill Cowley
This unique exhibit features UU Santa Fe member Jill Cowley’s textures collection of work completed in 2021. It includes watercolor wax-paper pours on paper, hanging knitted yarn pieces, and watercolor pieces that use intense black shapes. 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 ResettlementThe Afghan family that we are co-sponsoring moved into their permanent housing on Thursday, April 7. Our project is now working to help this family settle into their life in Santa Fe. We will increase the number of English classes and help them figure out how to survive their daily life – how to pay their bills, how to get to and from places. We will also help them discover the wonders of our city and how to find joy in playgrounds, hiking trails, and museums. Every day this family teaches us how to be open to everything that the day brings.
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 Teams Forming!UU Santa Fe is initiating 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 |
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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 | ||||
Support Democracy, Sunday, June 19, following the service. Join us in the courtyard for refreshments and an opportunity to support our democracy. We are working with Vote Forward, they will supply us with names of registered voter in traditionally under represented areas. Our job is to encourage these voters to actually VOTE!
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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
Three Selections
Three Selections
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Three selections that will inform us this summer.
- June - Blessings | The Tragedy of Heterosexuality | Discussion June 26
- July - Beauty | Easy Beauty | Discussion July 10
- August - Stories That Shape Us | This is the Canon | Discussion August 14
UU Santa Fe & Board News
Office Hours
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UU Santa Fe Board newsMeetings & Important Dates
Busy people have goals; productive people have priorities.―Anonymous |