Unitarian Congregation of Taos

12/03/2025

November 5th Sunday program, the Aspen Song group from Taos Pueblo

12/03/2025

11/22/2023

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Unitarian Universalist theology and values call us to confront false myths of Thanksgiving history and reimagine our traditions as we acknowledge historical and present-day truths of white supremacist theft, violence, and genocide. As we live into Thanksgiving traditions of gathering with friends an...

11/22/2023

We Thank You God for Potlucks! With wishes for a happy Thanksgiving.

We thank you God for potlucks
Where a multitude can cook
With ingredients and spices
That aren’t from just one book.

From casseroles and dumplings,
Hors d’oeurves and canapés,
Puddings, sauces, pastas,
To sensational flambés.

How boring when there’s just one dish
Or flavor to fit all.
How yummy and much more delish
When our feast’s a free-for-all.

Our faith is like a banquet too,
With many forms of seasoning
Where Christians, Rastafarians and Jews
All do their separate reasoning.

But all can share one table,
Break bread and sit to eat,
Enriched by our diversity
From pumpernickel to whole wheat.

So we are our own blessing;
Our gratitude’s made real
When we as friends can feed and serve
Each other in life’s meal.

Reverend Gary Kowalski

11/06/2023

A month ago Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israeli settlers shocking in its brutality. Hundreds including women, children and the elderly were taken hostage as missiles rained down on Israeli cities. Casualties were in the thousands. The following day, Israeli Defense Forces began a bombardment of Gaza that has killed many more thousands, burying civilians with no place to flee beneath the rubble of a ruined city starved for potable water, electricity, food and medical supplies. The cost in suffering has been enormous.

The roots of this conflict are ancient, as people of different faiths and ethnicities (Jewish, Palestinian, Muslim, Christian, Druze, Ba'hai, Samaritan and more) struggle to live side by side on a small piece of real estate that three major world religions claim as holy ground.

Warfare is not the answer, for while religious extremists embrace violence, the core teaching of all great faiths counsels a peaceful co-existence for the world's peoples founded on justice and mutual respect.

The Hebrew Bible envisions a time when swords will be beaten into ploughshares, when each shall live beneath their own vine or fig tree, and none shall make them afraid. It is time for world leaders to step back from the precipice of wider war and begin a process of reconciliation that will end the bloodshed and bring about just and lasting peace.

10/04/2023

Blessing of the Animals, Sunday, October 1, 2023, raised almost $600 for Stray Hearts Animal Shelter. Thanks to Sara Hanlon of the Ksitigarbha Tibetan Buddhist Center, Jason Knowles and Joycelyn Parris of Stray Hearts, our own Reverend Gary Kowalski and all our four-legged and two-legged guests who made this such a memorable event ...

08/28/2023

Sunday, September 3, 11:00 am "Oppenheimer" This coming Sunday our minister Gary Kowalski reflects on the movie, the man, and the challenge posed to our world by the continuing threat of nuclear weapons, with hints of hope on the horizon.

08/08/2023

Amid the fanfare over "Oppenheimer," please take a moment this week to remember the victims of the bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and August 9, 1945.