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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CONNECTION
Holiday Events
What's Happening
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Holiday schedule to print or save Dec 15 “Your Presence is the Present.” We move from reveling to contemplation as we consider the most valuable gift we can give or receive this holiday season—the gift of attention. Rev. Gail preaching. Dec 22 “More than Darkness and Light: A Celebration of the Solstice.” In this humanist and earth centered neopagan celebration led by Rev. Gail we celebrate the dance of the light and the dark that makes all life on earth possible! Dec 24, 5:30 pm “Light a lot of Candles, Sing a lot of Songs.” Join Rev. Gail and Hazzan Cindy Freedman for a UU celebration of our Jewish and Christian holiday heritage. Our service will start with “Light One Candle” and end with “Silent Night” and the passing of the light. Dec 25, 6:30 pm “Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.” A perfect UU end to a UU Christmas day. Join the Upstart Readers (sister organization to the Upstart Crows) for a costumed dramatic reading of Charles Dickens’ beloved tale. Victorian High Tea during intermission. Tickets $20 on the Upstart Crows website (UUs-Bring treats and get in free. No treats? Tickets are $10). Dec 29 “Habiri Gani? Kwanzaa!” Our friends from the NAACP will be celebrating Kwanzaa in Fogelson Hall on Sunday afternoon and are generously sharing their special guest, Professor Doris Fields with UU Santa Fe for our morning gathering. Dec 31, 4:30 “Ablaze with Light” As the sun sets on the last day of 2024, we are invited to celebrate Hanukkah and the New Year with our friends at HaMakom, lighting ALL the menorahs, singing traditional Jewish songs and feasting on latkes and applesauce. UU Santa Fe folk are invited to bring their own menorahs and additional celebratory foods. Gingerbread, rosettes or dark chocolate anyone? |
JUSTICE
Esperanza Holiday Gift Tree
November 24 through December 15
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The Justice Council is hosting an Esperanza Holiday Gift Tree for youth and their mothers currently housed at the Esperanza Shelter. This will be the fourth year that UU Santa Fe has generously contributed to a holiday of hope for families affected by domestic violence. You will find our tree in Fogelson Hall decorated with paper “ornaments” containing a number, the name and age of the recipient, and the gift requested: 1. Select your “ornament” 2. Sign the “gift adoption book” in the foyer on the line next to your ornament’s number. Please give us an email or telephone number, too, in case we need to contact you. 3. Purchase the gift (or gift card), wrap it, put the ornament tag on the outside, and place it under the tree no later than December 15. |
EXPLORING
What Will You Bring?
Winter/ Spring 2025
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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. We are looking for new topics for this coming winter and spring. Some topics we have planned are:
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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.
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
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Join a GROUP! MEETING TIMESFor more information about our Groups. To get connected with any of these groups, contact 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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New Mexico Impressions
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October/November/December 2024
Artists, Raj Hajela, Shelley Longmire and A. Kathrina Storm have each applied their own particular styles to more than 40 monoprints—defined simply as single prints created by transferring to paper an image that has been painted on another surface. More information and video |
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UUWFUnitarian 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. UU Women’s Fellowship, Monthly Support for Girls and Women, Saturday, December 14, 11 am, Fellowship Hall Laurie Merrill, Executive Director, Freeflow New Mexico, Menstrual Products Distribution, will talk with us about the organization she founded in 2020, during the height of the Covid pandemic. What began with assembling 300 period kits in her dad’s garage has grown into an operation distributing 1600 kits monthly. These menstruation kits are provided to homeless and low-income and rural women and girls who may not have access to these vital products otherwise. In 2025, Free Flow aims to expand to 3,000 period kits per month, reaching more rural communities in Northern New Mexico, launching an indigenous program, and continuing the growth of its six core programs. Come and hear more about this community centered program working to create sustainable solutions and reduce the stigma surrounding menstruation. Refreshments will be served beginning at 10:30. For more information about UUWF and to receive our emails about upcoming events, email us at [email protected]. |
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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 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
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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. |
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. The Justice Council meets the first Thursday of each month from 6-8 pm for a Zoom meeting.
Afghan Resettlement: Contact Gale Wasserman Esperanza (Community Partner): Contact Cheryl Ancell.
Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.—Cornel West |
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Justice CouncilThe 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 OUR NEIGHBORSSunday, September 22 | Little Globe
"Little Globe’s multi-generational team works with individuals and organizations to tell their own stories. Through partnerships, we provide tools, programs, training, and platforms to co-create and share artistic works with the wider world." Little Globe envisions a world where we connect, heal and thrive through the art of storytelling. Our multi-cultural and multi-generational team works collaboratively with participants, providing tools, training, and platforms empowering people to tell their own stories. The Community Storytellers program teaches residents how to develop, record, and edit their personal narratives through film, creating a rich living history told by the people themselves. More information here. Donate to make a change. |
EXPLORING
Below are highlights of our Family and Adult programs.
The stories we tell ourselves make us who we are. |
Inter-generational Programming
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- Flower Ceremony and annual meeting inJune
- Water Ceremony in September
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ADULT LIFELONG EXPLORATIONS
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 |
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Join a GROUP! MEETING TIMESBelow 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.
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
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.
We are looking for new topics for this coming winter and spring. Some topics we have planned are:
We are looking for new topics for this coming winter and spring. Some topics we have planned are:
- Using the book by Parker Palmer, On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity & Getting Old to explore our own journey as we get older.
- “Transcendence, Science and Poetry” using some new writing on our human relations to the natural world, some writings of Margaret Fuller (one of our Transcendentalist ancestors) and poetry to explore that relationship.
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 |