All Services and Sharing Circles are held in person at the Bent Lodge, 124 Camino de Santiago, Taos, NM 87571.
Please check the Covid ActNow website for Taos County on Sunday mornings. If the risk level is anything but green (i.e., yellow or orange), please wear a mask.
Sunday, January 19, 2025, 11 a.m. — Service: Fannie Lou’s Shotguns: Is King’s Non-Violent Resistance Still Relevant?, Rev. Diana Davies
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. preached a message of non-violent resistance and Civil Rights leaders made this a cornerstone strategy of their movement. But under a government that openly, even gleefully, celebrates violence, is non-violent resistance still a viable option? Can non-violent action still change both laws and hearts?
Sunday, January 26, 2025, 11 a.m. — Special Session: Annual Meeting
This is our most important business meeting of the year, where we conduct the key business items of the Congregation: a review of 2024, election of Board members, 2025 budget approval, and more. There will also be a time for members to ask questions of and make suggestions to the Board. Please join us. Your presence and participation are vital to the ongoing processes of UCOT self-governance.
Sunday, February 2, 2025, 11 a.m. — Service: Niemöller’s Confession: A Story of Silence, Rev. Diana Davies
A quote by German pastor Martin Niemöller is prominently displayed at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. It begins with the lines: “First, they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out — because I was not a socialist.” Many of us know some version of this quote, but Niemöller’s own story of transformation, from support for the Nazis to active resistance, is less well known. What lessons can Niemöller’s tale of transformation offer us as we enter a period of increasing authoritarianism?
Sunday, February 9, 2025, 11 a.m. — Sharing Circle: Listening
“Although listening is the foundation of communication, innovation, growth, and love, few of us know how to do it properly or where even to start.”
— Kim Scott, author of Radical Candor
“It is only through listening that we engage,
understand, connect, empathize, and develop as human beings. It is fundamental to any successful
relationship — personal, professional, and political.”
— Kate Murphy, author of You’re Not Listening
“Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.”
— Epictetus
How good of a listener are you? David Brooks, author of How to Know a Person, says we’re not as good as we think. But neither are those who listen to us. At the Sharing Circle we know what it feels like to listen and to be heard. We value both.
Sunday, February 16, 2025, 11 a.m. — Service: When You Were a Tadpole and I Was a Fish, Rev. Diana Davies
In the middle of February, we celebrate two events that might seem entirely unrelated: Valentine’s Day and Darwin Day (in honor of Charles Darwin’s birthday on Feb. 12). Romantic love and cold, scientific evolution seem like opposites in many ways, but maybe they’re not! Darwin’s own love story with his wife Emma can help us see the connections.
Sunday, February 23, 2025, 11 a.m. — Sharing Circle: Open Topic
Using a virtual “talking stick,” each person can speak in turn, sharing whatever is in their hearts or on their minds in the moment.