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, December 22, 2024, 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 minds in the moment.
Sunday, January 5, 2025, 11 a.m. — Special Session: Burning Bowl Ceremony, Donna Collins
The new year calls us forward, filled with mystery. As we turn toward 2025, we take a final glimpse of the past year and reckon with all that it held for us. What parts of our lives — what things, ideas, people, ways of living — have become obstacles to our becoming the people we want to be, the people we need to be? What’s holding you back? What’s getting in the way of your living as fully as you’d like to? What might you burn away from your current life? What will you relinquish?
Sunday, January 12, 2025, 11 a.m. — Sharing Circle: Networks of Grace or UU Covenant Groups
There is no better antidote to hopelessness or despair than community. According to Michael Meade, since the world tensions that divide us may intensify, we need to make moments of wholeness that remind us of the underlying unity of life. We need to feel that, despite all the current divisions and heart-breaking conflicts, grace can fall upon us at any time. In “The Hope: a Guide to Sacred Activism,” Andrew Harvey recommends forming “Networks of Grace,” groups comprised of 6 to 12 individuals, who meet to find solidarity and mutual support during a time of intense change. This is similar to “covenant groups” (small, closed groups that meet on a regular basis over several months) that exist in many UU congregations. To create the support we need, forming covenant groups based in healthy communication, deep trust, and a commitment to hearing ALL voices, may be one way to answer Rev. Diana’s question: “What gift of opportunity is life offering you at this moment?”
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
On January 26, 2025, the Unitarian Congregation of Taos will hold its 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.