We are back live and in person each Sunday of the month
Following the pandemic, most or all of us have some level of immunity – whether through vaccination or natural immunity – and UCOT is meeting in person once again 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, June 21, 2024, 11 a.m. — Service: Your Uniqueness, Your Dream, Your Reality, and Franz Kafka in a Bar, Rev. Doug Inhofe
Franz Kafka died on June 3, 1924. His writing was dark and demanding. He was not famous in his lifetime. Now his work commands worldwide attention, with readers recognizing the dilemmas of their own existence in his writing — bizarre as it seems at first blush. Despite bureaucratic leveling that makes us feel like numbers, and the oppressive intricacies of determining the truth, please persist: believe in your uniqueness, be inspired by hope that your “possible” might creep into your “real,” and awaken to a reality that embodies your personal utopian dream.
Sunday, July 28, 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, August 4, 2024, 11 a.m. — Service: The Poetry and Music of Ric Masten, Chuck and Marsha Fawns
Ric Masten was a friend of ours, and we connected many times over the years when we were members of the First Unitarian Church in Dallas. Ric was not only a poet but a traveling troubadour. He was the first—and, as far as we know, the only—person who was ever ordained as a Unitarian minister without attending one of our divinity schools. We will be presenting the poetry and music of Ric Masten. Many of you are familiar with Ric’s “Let It Be a Dance,” hymn number 311 in our Unitarian Hymnal.
Sunday, August 11, 2024, 11 a.m. — Sharing Circle: Death
In our elder days we confront the truth of our mortality. And we do this in the middle of our death-denying culture, a culture where we are so often offered the message that we can live forever with the right combination of yoga, injections and elective surgery. But while the false promises of immortality through self-improvement might sell product, they do nothing for us in any real way other than to make us feel like we can avoid the most inevitable thing in the world: that we will die.
Sunday, August 18, 2024, 11 a.m. — Service: One Fainting Robin,
Rev. Doug Inhofe
Looking at Kafka’s life, in July, was a look inside to honor the sanctity and solidity of our own personal dreams and hopes and values. Now consider facing the world girded by our inner convictions —a world that’s confoundingly ablaze with others’ aspirations — and envision how our inner confidence can help us to accept the diversity of humanity and the resulting hubbub and, at the same time, to fashion a world consistent with our ideas and ideals.
Sunday, August 25, 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.