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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
Imagine: A World With No Lepers | Rev. Debra Asis
Sun, Nov 16 | 10:30 am
​Fogelson Hall​​
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Rev. Debra Asis—Episcopal priest, spiritual director and Rev. Gail’s interfaith colleague—is our guest this Sunday. Her sermon references two readings—one from the book of Luke, the other from John Lennon. Rev, Debra writes, “My journey is like a meandering river, or perhaps you could just call it twisted. I have been in the Church and out of the Church, Presbyterian and Taoist, progressive and emerging. No matter the twist or turn along the way, I have always been in conversation with a “Something More” that for years I refused to call “God.” I bookend my days with working out, writing, walking Mojo the dog, studying sacred and not so sacred texts, and meditating. I love art, dance, hiking and daily writing my blog. My role as GiGi with my grandsons Alec and Wesley rocks my world. Several careers including academic, clinical researcher, psychotherapist, program designer, spiritual director and single mom preceded my ordination to the sacramental priesthood of the Episcopal Church, which marked the culmination and integration of my life steeped in Holy Mystery and proves God has a sense of humor. Regardless of my several vocations, mine is a ministry of accompaniment; of walking alongside clergy and lay people as they deepen their relationships with themselves, each other and with “Something More” that some call God.​"
​​CONNECTION
Holiday Appetizers & Desserts Buffet
Sunday, December 7, after services
Please RSVP here
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A very special service and an opportunity to celebrate the holidays with your UU Santa Fe friends—and guests are welcome, too! We will provide a few items, but most will come from you. We ask each person attending to bring an appetizer or dessert (no mains or salads) to serve 8-12 people.

Please complete the RSVP form above to let us know how many are attending, what you will bring and whether you can help set up or clean up (or both!).

​We'll be seated at festive tables in Fogelson and Fellowship Halls for this event.

​If you have questions, please call Roberta at 505.670.4683.—Elizabeth Swope and Roberta Armstrong, Community Life​
JUSTICE
Ring Out Freedom Bell Ringing at the Round House
Fridays, 4 pm​
Corner of Paseo de Peralta and Old Santa Fe Trail
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Want to have some fun? Join our motley crew on Friday evenings to Ring Out Freedom. We gather at the corner of Old Santa Fe Trail and Paseo de Peralta, by the Capitol, at 4 pm. Bring a bell or noise maker (we have some if you don’t) and the sign of your choice—there are SO MANY issues to be concerned about! If you don’t have a sign, just make some noise with the rest of us. Last week there were lots of horn toots, peace signs, waves and smiles. And we had a great time! It takes less than an hour and is very rewarding.
EXPLORATION
Diabetes and the Holidays Workshop
Sat, Nov 22, 1–4 pm | Fellowship Hall​
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Ready for the holidays? Do you have diabetes or love someone who does? What MUST you do? Learn from Karen Meadows, who has had type 1 diabetes since childhood. Karen is a retired and still-certified diabetes educator. She encourages, "Learn how to eat what you love during the holidays and beyond."


​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​
CONNECTION
EXPLORATIONS
Adult Programming​
  • Adult Groups―for regular meeting times click on the Learning Tab above
  • Adult Classes​​​―click on the Learning Tab above for complete info
  • T’ai Chi Chih, Thursdays, 10–11 am, Fellowship Hall. Seated participant option available. All skill levels and drop-ins welcome. Contact Jim Eagle or Greg Berg for more information.​​​​

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
There are more than 25 groups and 280 members and friends participating in our Community Life Groups and events—gathering variously onsite, online and hybrid. Check our calendar and various web pages for more information.

Join a GROUP! MEETING TIMES

For more information about our Groups. To get connected with any of these groups, contact our Office Administrator.
FRIENDSHIP GROUPS
  • Acoustic Musicians on Barcelona. 2nd Sundays, 7–8:30 pm in Fogelson Hall. Check Meetup for more information.
  • Art on Barcelona meets as necessary.
  • Informal coffee hour every Sunday after our gathering
  • Different Drummers. 1st and 3rd Sundays, 1:30 pm Fellowship Hall. 
  • Men's Odyssey. 1st Tuesday of every month, 7–8:30 pm in the library; and 3rd Tuesday, 6–7 pm with alternating activities. This is an open friendship group for men.
  • UU Women's Fellowship. 2nd Saturdays, 11 am
NEIGHBORHOOD GROUPS
  • Baca Street. 3rd Saturday, 11 am in-person. 
  • Central Santa Fe. Meeting outdoors when activity and weather allows, dates vary each month, mostly weekends. 
  • El Castillo. Residency, no regular meetings. 
  • Eldorado. 3rd Saturday. 
  • North Central Santa Fe. 3rd Thursday, 4 pm in-person as circumstances allow. 
  • Park Plazas. 1st Saturday, 4 pm in-person. 
  • Southside. 2nd or 3rd Saturday, in-person. 
SPIRITUALITY GROUPS
  • Zia Spirituality 1st & 3rd Tuesdays, 6:30 pm MT online
  • Covenant Groups: Soul Journeys is welcoming new members. Their meeting times are varied. Please contact the office for more information.
SUPPORT GROUPS
  • Memory Café, every Friday, 2 pm in Fellowship Hall
If you wish to go fast, go alone. If you wish to go far, go together―
N'Gambay People, Central Africa

ART ON BARCELONA

October/November/December
​Art On Barcelona’s foyer exhibit, MY NEW MEXICO LIFE ... an unending artistic inspiration, features paintings by local artist Jamie Winslow. Please join us for an Artist's Reception on Sunday, November 23, from 2–4 pm.  ​
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 More information and video

UUWF 

Unitarian 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. 

For more information about UUWF and to receive our emails about upcoming events, email us at [email protected].

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
Below are initiatives and information regarding our justice activities.
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 Mary Ellen Gonzales to explore your idea.

Join a JUSTICE TEAM! MEETING TIMES

Justice Workgroups | Open to All
Our Justice Workgroups are outward focused in serving the needs of the community of Santa Fe and the wider world.
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The Justice Council meets the first Thursday of each month from 6–8 pm via Zoom.

  • Advocacy and Democracy Workgroup. Contact Gayle Boyd. 
  • Environmental Workgroup: 4th Sunday, 12 pm MT, online or hybrid. Contact Jean Darling.​
  • Community Partners with Ongoing Relationships:
          Adelante: Contact Mary Ellen Gonzales
          Afghan Resettlement: Contact Gale Wasserman
          Esperanza (Community Partner): Contact Cheryl Ancell
          Santa Fe Chapter of the NAACP (Community Partner): Contact                      Michael Brown
  • See our Calendar (all the red buttons are justice initiatives) for more information!
UU Santa Fe hosts the Meetup Page, Santa Fe Justice Makers. Many of our justice initiatives and gatherings will appear on this group page. Join Meetup, then join Justice Makers! And visit often.

​Learn more about Justice Teams
Never forget that  justice is what love looks like  in public.—Cornel West

Justice Council

The 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 those in Need

November Giving | Interfaith Community Services
This organization ran Pete’s Place for years and continues doing good work serving our unhoused neighbors. They offer three significant programs and have an ambitious new project in the works! Learn more and donate at interfaithsheltersf.org.

Learn more about our First Sunday Giving Program!

EXPLORATION

Below are highlights of our Family and Adult programs.
The stories we tell ourselves make us who we are.
―Donna Barba Higuera, The Last Cuentista

Inter-generational Programming
ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS!

ADULT LIFELONG EXPLORATIONS

  • Our shared journey is expressed at UU Santa Fe by four core experiences and their corresponding spiritual practices:
  • The experience of Becoming by listening to our deepest self
  • The experience of Belonging by loving our neighbors
  • The experience of Engaging by serving needs greater than our own
  • The experience of Being by opening to life’s gifts.
​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

Join a GROUP! MEETING TIMES

​Below 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.
  • ​Freethinker's Forum: A HUUmanist Discussion Group | 3rd Sundays, Noon MT | in-person and via Zoom. Find out more on the Santa Fe Freethinkers Meetup page. When you RSVP to attend, Meetup provides you the Zoom meeting sign-in information.
  • Meditation Practice | Sundays, 3:30–5 pm | Fellowship Hall. Vipassana meditation, also known as Insight Meditation, is a Buddhist practice focused on cultivating present moment awareness and understanding the nature of reality through direct experience. Join us for our weekly practice.​​
  • ​​Mindfulness Meditation Group | Mondays, 9:30 am MT | Library and hybrid via Zoom. Guided meditation for 30 minutes and discussion of a short reading. New participants welcome. If joining on Zoom, please email Sandy at [email protected] for sign-in information.
  • ​Beginner T'ai Chi Chih Course | Tuesdays, October 21 to December 9, 10–11 am | Fellowship Hall. T’ai Chi Chih (TCC) is a moving meditation that includes 19 gentle, graceful movements and a pose. TCC can improve leg strength, balance, coordination and provide a greater sense of mental clarity and emotional stability. It can help keep you centered, provide a deeper sense of well-being and cultivate serenity in the midst of daily activity. The Beginner Course is eight 1-hour classes and is taught by Jim Eagle with assistance from Greg Berg, both accredited teachers. Jim and Greg are the only active accredited TCC teachers in the Santa Fe area. Space is limited so please sign up by emailing Jim at [email protected].
  • T’ai Chi Chih | Thursdays, 10–11 am | Fellowship Hall. Seated participant option available. Completing the T’ai Chi Chih Beginner Course before attending this weekly practice is recommended. Contact Jim Eagle or Greg Berg for more information.
Learn more about Groups
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
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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.

UU Santa Fe & Board News

Office Hours
  • Sunday–Friday 9 am–12 pm
  • Our office is closed on Saturdays and civic holidays
  • If door is locked, ring bell

UU Santa Fe Board news

Meetings & Important Dates
  • Board of Trustees Meeting | Board Meeting, Thursday, December 11, 6 pm, via Zoom. Contact [email protected] for more information.
  • Minutes of recent Board meetings may be found on the Members page of the website; contact [email protected] for access.
Highlights from the October 23, 2025 meeting. The Board:
  • Recognized new member: Reid Kurtenbach, who lives in Colorado, signed the book in September.
  • Thanked Rev. Gail, Mike Owens, Gerald Hendrickson for cleaning out the "worship" shelf in the tower; Leslie Reambeault for arranging the display of the LGBTQIA+ flags in Fogelson Hall,; Jim Kraemer for the surprise PSA video supporting the book sale; and Sarah McDougal for donating the sound bar and speaker that have been installed in Fellowship Hall.
  • Received a financial update from VP for Finance John Lehman.
  • Heard a report from the Facilities Committee on recent projects. The Board reviewed a list of potential capital projects and identified eight high priority projects for the committee to investigate further. More discussion will occur after the new year.
  • Approved a charter for the Ministerial Agreement (i.e., Rev. Gail's contract) Review Task Force and a report from the group. 
  • Discussed options for identifying additional members of the Stewardship Committee. 
  • Discussed membership on the Vol. 2-Organization policy task force; one additional member will be sought.
  • Agreed that the meetings scheduled on Thanksgiving and Christmas should be canceled. The Board will next meet on December 11 via Zoom and continue online meeting through February.
Busy people have goals; productive people have priorities.―Anonymous​