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.
Phishing Scams: Neither Rev. Gail nor the UU Santa Fe office will ever ask for help with "emergency funds" for any cause via text or email. DO NOT BUY CARDS or send money. |
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INSPIRATION
10:30 am, Fogelson Hall
Sunday, October 1
Our Feminist Heritage Rev. Gail Marriner x
We call it "the inherent worth and dignity of every person." Our Unitarian and Transcendentalist ancestors called it "likeness to God." In either case, the idea under-girds much of our social justice work and is at the roots of the larger feminist movement. Join Rev. Gail for a service reflecting on our UU journey toward recognizing the worth of all people and some of the women who were part of the struggle. Wisdom Story for All Ages: The Little Oak Tree by Barbara Marshman After the service, "Honoring our Elders" returns with a gathering to honor longtime UU Santa Fe member, past board president, church secretary, and Jill-of-all trades, June Jameson. Everyone is invited to hear more of our history and June's life. |
CONNECTION
Neighborhood Groups
Connect with UU Santa Fe Members and Friends in Your Area
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UU Santa Fe Neighborhood Groups—casual gatherings for fellowship and fun; open to all Members and Friends. Groups meet variously as they decide—online, onsite and hybrid. Baca Street 3rd Saturdays, 11 am MT online. Contact Ruth LaNore or Devey Napier. Central Santa Fe. Meeting mostly outdoors, with varying dates each month. Contact Nina Binin. Eldorado 3rd Saturday, various times in-person and/or online. Contact Roberta Armstrong or Elizabeth Swope. North Central Santa Fe. 4th Thursday, 3 pm MT in-person as circumstances allow. Contact Ann Jennings-Reid. Park Plazas 1st Saturday, 4 pm MT online. Contact Rod Morgan. Southside 2nd Saturdays, in-person and/or online as circumstances allow. Contact Cheryl Ancell or Janie Farler. For assistance in contacting the Neighborhood Group Coordinators listed above, contact the Office. To learn more about Neighborhood Groups, stop by the Welcome Table on Sunday or contact Roberta Armstrong or Elizabeth Swope. |
JUSTICE
Supplies for Migrants
Collections from
September 18-November 15 & again in January x
The UUSF Justice Council is participating with a network of New Mexico faith communities (mostly UU’s and Friends) to provide assistance to asylum-seekers at our southern border. They have entered the U.S. legally and are in a shelter in Deming waiting to travel to their sponsors elsewhere in the country. Their final asylum hearings will not occur for months from now. They have nothing! Beginning in October, we will be collecting supplies needed for their journey, such as baby supplies, new underwear, comfortable shoes, jackets and food items that can be packed into “go bags” by our UU friends in Silver City. And, they would also love to have handmade items (knit/crochet or sewn). A list of current needs will soon be available. For more information, contact Gayle Boyd. |
LEARNING
What I Believe
Small Group Ministry class
Nina Binin & Greg Berg October 11-December 13 x
“What I Believe” is a new small group open for sign-ups that will include six sessions facilitated by Greg Berg and Nina Binin. 6pm-8pm in person in the Committee Room at the church. Oct. 11 (Awakening), Oct.25 (Authenticity), Nov. 8 (Blessings), Nov. 15 (Wabi-Sabi), Nov. 29 (Transcendence), Dec. 13 (Intuition). We will agree on a covenant, and each session will include brief check-ins, a short set of readings and sharing in response to facilitator’s questions. Limited to seven participants-- a great opportunity to get to know other members on a deeper level. Please contact Nina or Greg to sign up or with questions. |
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
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. |
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Walking With Thoreau
Walking with Henry. Join Sherry Kraemer and Rev. Gail Marriner for a six session small group. For three sessions our reflections will be inspired by a close read of Thoreau’s essay “Walking," and over three sessions we will follow Thoreau’s instructions and go out into the “woods” and walk. This group will meet on the first, third and fifth Tuesdays of the month from 1-3 beginning October 2. Session one will meet at UU Santa Fe.
RSVP online to join Walking with Thoreau.—Blessings, Rev. Gail We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature. |
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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Magical World
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October/November/December 2023
An exploration in a variety of techniques such as Lichtspiele, mixed media and printmaking by Ruth Omlin. All are invited to our Meet the Artist Reception on Saturday, October 7, 3-6 pm. More information and video |
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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. 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 Tuesday of the month to discuss matters of mutual interest; on the third Tuesday at 7 pm the group meets at the ‘Alley’ for bowling. 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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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 Rev. Kimi for more information on how to get a group started. |
Join a JUSTICE TEAM! MEETING TIMESJustice Workgroups | Open to All
Our Justice Workgroups are outward focused in serving the needs of the community of Santa Fe and the wider world. Each group gathers online via Zoom video conferencing or in person. 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 Rev. Kimi to get connected. The Justice Council meets the first Thursday of each month from 6-8 pm for a Zoom meeting.
Dave Weiman on October 29, November 5 & 12 from 12-2 pm in the Library.
Afghan Resettlement: Contact Gale Wasserman Esperanza (Community Partner Emeritus): Contact Cheryl Ancell.
Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.—Cornel West |
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Community Partner TeamsJoin a Justice TeamUU 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. We just finished a cycle with our first partnerships and are proud to announce that Esperanza is now a Community Partner Emeritus. Our ongoing work with the organization will continue.
This comprehensive approach will include justice actions (volunteerism, financial and in-kind donations) but also elements of worship, community life and learning. Join a Justice Workgroup 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, |
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 next Sunday giving opportunity will be announced soon. |
Learning
Below are highlights of our Family and Adult Learning programs.
The stories we tell ourselves make us who we are. |
Inter-generational Programming
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- UU Treehouse, Sundays, 10:30 am
- Water Ceremony coming in September!
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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, 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, 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!
UU Santa Fe & Board News
Office Hours
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UU Santa Fe Board newsMeetings & Important Dates
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