All Services and Sharing Circles are held in person at the Bent Lodge, 124 Camino de Santiago, Taos, NM 87571.
Sunday, February 15, 2026, 11 a.m. — Service: Seven Kinds of Love,
Rev. Diana Davies
Love is at the center of who we are as Unitarian Universalists. But what does this really mean? Well over 2,000 years ago, philosophers in ancient Greece asked the question, “What is love, anyway?” and they came up with seven completely different words for different kinds of love: eros, ludus, philia, storge, agape, philautia, and pragma. Each one of these is part of the human experience and therefore sacred. Today, we celebrate love in all its forms.
Sunday, February 22, 2026, 11 a.m. — Sharing Circle: Senseless Acts of Beauty
Even at this still time of the year, we are surrounded by such beauty. When beauty stops you — the sudden color shift in the sky, the curve of a stranger’s kindness, or a sentence that lands exactly where it is needed — we reach for explanation, then give up. That moment of surrender . . . that’s wonder. Let’s share how beauty has transported us. Anne Herbert’s practice, “random kindness and senseless acts of beauty,” was unfurled in defiance of what she saw as a cruel and unrelenting world. Beholding beauty that evokes wonder makes people more likely to act with care beyond their immediate circle so that wonder has somewhere to land, briefly transforming all of us. Come share your sense of wonder. When have you been moved, transported beyond yourself by pure beauty? In a world that seems to have forgotten how to behold wonder, perhaps we will find some ways to generate some senseless beauty for one another and our community.