Your Starting Point With UU Santa Fe

The "UU Path"

Come, Come Whoever You Are
Come, come whoever you are,
Wonderer, wanderer, lover of leaving,
Ours is no caravan of despair,
Come yet again come.―Rumi

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The idea of “the UU path” is central to Starting Point. Inspired by the classic UU slogan, “deeds not creeds,” we present Unitarian Universalism as a particular way of journeying through the world rather than a set of beliefs to which one assents. Today, people are not so much looking for an organization to join as they are searching for companions to walk with. Their question is not so much “Do these people think and believe like I do?” but “Will this place provide me with tools and partners for my journey?” We hope so.

This emphasis on journey shapes Starting Point’s content and structure. We discuss topics such as:

• Your personal spiritual journey and how it led you to Unitarian Universalism
  
• The historical journey of Unitarian Universalism and UU Santa Fe history
  
• The shared journey of how you and our community will walk together.

The program ends by helping you discern which of the many “journey groups” in our community will be your next "step."​ There will be a Starting Point resource packet for you to take with you after the session that will make your Starting Point experience more meaningful.

We hope these journey groups invite you to go deeper—beyond words and ideas about Unitarian Universalism—to actual practice and experience so that eventually you will realize, as Thich Nhat Hanh writes, “...that our life is the path, and we no longer rely merely on the forms of practice.”

​Starting Point is led by the Ministry, Explorations and Community Life teams.

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