First Unitarian Church of Albuquerque
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First Unitarian Church of Albuquerque is a progressive religious community with a strong commitment to inclusion, anti-racism, anti-oppression, and social and environmental justice. An LGBTQ+ Welcoming Congregation of the Unitarian Universalist Association
UU singer-songwriter Peter Mayer shared music and stories with First Unitarian yesterday in Albuquerque. Watch it here:
December 7, 2025: Sermon in Song
Peter Mayer, UU singer-songwriter based in Stillwater, Minnesota, will share his “Sermon in Song,” weaving original songs with his thoughts on the…
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December 8, 2025 at 10:44 PM
UU singer-songwriter Peter Mayer shared music and stories with First Unitarian yesterday in Albuquerque. Watch it here:
Full video of Rep. Stansbury's remarks yesterday are available on our Vimeo channel:
Sunday, November 23, 2025: US Representative Melanie Stansbury
For our 4th Sunday Speaker Series, New Mexico US Representative Melanie Stansbury spoke to a large group of Unitarian Universalists with a message of hope and the…
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November 24, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Full video of Rep. Stansbury's remarks yesterday are available on our Vimeo channel:
Looking for dinner this Thursday? Who better to share food and festivity with than your friends and family at First Unitarian! Make your favorite Thanksgiving dish to serve 8–10 people and enjoy the afternoon at church from 2:00-4:00 pm in the Social Hall. www.signupgenius.com/go/10C084BAA...
November 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Looking for dinner this Thursday? Who better to share food and festivity with than your friends and family at First Unitarian! Make your favorite Thanksgiving dish to serve 8–10 people and enjoy the afternoon at church from 2:00-4:00 pm in the Social Hall. www.signupgenius.com/go/10C084BAA...
Thank you Rep. Stansbury for sharing such an inspiring message with us this morning! #unitarianuniverslist #loveatthecenter
We must lean into HOPE! Thank you to the First Unitarian Church of Albuquerque inviting me to your speaker series to share our message of hope and the work ahead to ensure that every person has access to food, housing, healthcare, opportunity, and dignity.
November 23, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Thank you Rep. Stansbury for sharing such an inspiring message with us this morning! #unitarianuniverslist #loveatthecenter
Beloved UU singer-songwriter Peter Mayer returns for a concert in our sanctuary, Friday, Dec 5, 7:00 pm! Proceeds from the concert will benefit UUABQ’s social justice programming for our neighbors and the wider community. Purchase advance tickets on our website! secure.myvanco.com/L-Z4A4/home
November 23, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Beloved UU singer-songwriter Peter Mayer returns for a concert in our sanctuary, Friday, Dec 5, 7:00 pm! Proceeds from the concert will benefit UUABQ’s social justice programming for our neighbors and the wider community. Purchase advance tickets on our website! secure.myvanco.com/L-Z4A4/home
Please join twelve Albuquerque congregations for our annual Interfaith Thanksgiving Service this Sunday at 3:00 pm at First Unitarian Church, co-hosted by First Unitarian, Minara Muslim Community and ABQ Center for Spiritual Living. "Many Windows, One Light."
November 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Please join twelve Albuquerque congregations for our annual Interfaith Thanksgiving Service this Sunday at 3:00 pm at First Unitarian Church, co-hosted by First Unitarian, Minara Muslim Community and ABQ Center for Spiritual Living. "Many Windows, One Light."
New Mexico's US Representative Melanie Stansbury will be speaking at First Unitarian this Sunday at 10 am! She will be sharing information about the shut down and its impact on New Mexico, federal policing in our state, and all the stuff that keeps her up at night! Livestream link on our homepage.
November 21, 2025 at 7:06 PM
New Mexico's US Representative Melanie Stansbury will be speaking at First Unitarian this Sunday at 10 am! She will be sharing information about the shut down and its impact on New Mexico, federal policing in our state, and all the stuff that keeps her up at night! Livestream link on our homepage.
First Unitarian's Rainbow Network will host a candlelight vigil tonight from 4-6 pm in Memorial Hall to remember the trans lives lost in the past year in the US. All are invited to attend - a separate sacred space for our trans beloveds, and pastoral care for those who need it, will be available.
November 20, 2025 at 7:06 PM
First Unitarian's Rainbow Network will host a candlelight vigil tonight from 4-6 pm in Memorial Hall to remember the trans lives lost in the past year in the US. All are invited to attend - a separate sacred space for our trans beloveds, and pastoral care for those who need it, will be available.
Are you part of an Albuquerque-area nonprofit that could benefit from a Change for the Future grant? Go here to apply: uuabq.org/2026-change-...
November 14, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Are you part of an Albuquerque-area nonprofit that could benefit from a Change for the Future grant? Go here to apply: uuabq.org/2026-change-...
First U’s Rainbow Network is hosting a viewing of the 2025 UUA Ware Lecture with Imara Jones of translash.org for our community, with a sandwich bar, drinks, and a time to discuss what we watched. This Saturday 11/15 doors at 4 pm, the lecture will be introduced by Rev. Stacey Mitchell at 5:15 pm.
November 13, 2025 at 10:44 PM
First U’s Rainbow Network is hosting a viewing of the 2025 UUA Ware Lecture with Imara Jones of translash.org for our community, with a sandwich bar, drinks, and a time to discuss what we watched. This Saturday 11/15 doors at 4 pm, the lecture will be introduced by Rev. Stacey Mitchell at 5:15 pm.
According to the Trevor Project, "Bi people make up the largest portion of the LGBTQ community, but are often erased and face higher risk than their peers for sexual assault and suicide." We celebrate #BiWeek to increase visibility and celebrate all sexualities as holy and good.
September 23, 2025 at 6:06 PM
According to the Trevor Project, "Bi people make up the largest portion of the LGBTQ community, but are often erased and face higher risk than their peers for sexual assault and suicide." We celebrate #BiWeek to increase visibility and celebrate all sexualities as holy and good.
Shanah Tovah to our Jewish beloveds as they began the celebration of Rosh Hashanah tonight. May sweetness and goodness be yours in this new year.
September 22, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Shanah Tovah to our Jewish beloveds as they began the celebration of Rosh Hashanah tonight. May sweetness and goodness be yours in this new year.
Locate the kind of belonging that doesn’t demand your erasure.
Cole Authur Riley
Cole Authur Riley
September 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Locate the kind of belonging that doesn’t demand your erasure.
Cole Authur Riley
Cole Authur Riley
Without community there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between an individual and her oppression.
Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde
September 20, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Without community there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between an individual and her oppression.
Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde
Lots to do this Sunday!
*Worship at 9 & 11, sermon by Rev. Beth: "Do You Want to Know a Secret?"
*Family Ministry BBQ with good food, friends, & live music at 12:00 pm.
*Berry Street Essay Discussion led by Rev. Stacey at 12:30 pm - "If Our Secrets Define Us" by the Rev. Gail Seavey.
*Worship at 9 & 11, sermon by Rev. Beth: "Do You Want to Know a Secret?"
*Family Ministry BBQ with good food, friends, & live music at 12:00 pm.
*Berry Street Essay Discussion led by Rev. Stacey at 12:30 pm - "If Our Secrets Define Us" by the Rev. Gail Seavey.
September 19, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Lots to do this Sunday!
*Worship at 9 & 11, sermon by Rev. Beth: "Do You Want to Know a Secret?"
*Family Ministry BBQ with good food, friends, & live music at 12:00 pm.
*Berry Street Essay Discussion led by Rev. Stacey at 12:30 pm - "If Our Secrets Define Us" by the Rev. Gail Seavey.
*Worship at 9 & 11, sermon by Rev. Beth: "Do You Want to Know a Secret?"
*Family Ministry BBQ with good food, friends, & live music at 12:00 pm.
*Berry Street Essay Discussion led by Rev. Stacey at 12:30 pm - "If Our Secrets Define Us" by the Rev. Gail Seavey.
Here's a Unitarian Universalist history lesson! Today marks the 189th anniversary of the first meeting of the Transcendentalist Club on Sept. 19, 1836. This article tells about how our Unitarian forebears changed the world of thought, literature, and religion.
The self-reliant and the social reformers
Transcendentalists were divided into several camps, just like their Unitarian Universalist heirs.
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September 19, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Here's a Unitarian Universalist history lesson! Today marks the 189th anniversary of the first meeting of the Transcendentalist Club on Sept. 19, 1836. This article tells about how our Unitarian forebears changed the world of thought, literature, and religion.
How do you #buildbelonging with yourself? #unitarianuniversalism
September 18, 2025 at 6:06 PM
How do you #buildbelonging with yourself? #unitarianuniversalism
Do you know Lilith? Check out the worship service from this past Sunday with a sermon from Rev. Beth Eliot and acapella music from Cantabalis.
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September 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Do you know Lilith? Check out the worship service from this past Sunday with a sermon from Rev. Beth Eliot and acapella music from Cantabalis.
vimeo.com/1119214371?f...
vimeo.com/1119214371?f...
We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick. Brené Brown
#unitarianuniversalist #buildingbelonging
#unitarianuniversalist #buildingbelonging
September 11, 2025 at 6:06 PM
We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick. Brené Brown
#unitarianuniversalist #buildingbelonging
#unitarianuniversalist #buildingbelonging
"One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone." Shannon L. Alder
#ingathering #unitarianuniversalist #buildingbelonging
#ingathering #unitarianuniversalist #buildingbelonging
September 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM
"One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone." Shannon L. Alder
#ingathering #unitarianuniversalist #buildingbelonging
#ingathering #unitarianuniversalist #buildingbelonging
We share a message of welcome and courage at the start of a new congregational year for Unitarian Universalists. These leaders invite us to consider how we might place love at the center of our commitments rather than fear, even and especially in these challenging days.
2025 Ingathering Video
UUA President the Rev. Dr. Sofía Betancourt and a gathering of leaders from across the faith offer a message of welcome and courage at the start of a new congregational year for Unitarian…
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September 7, 2025 at 2:30 PM
We share a message of welcome and courage at the start of a new congregational year for Unitarian Universalists. These leaders invite us to consider how we might place love at the center of our commitments rather than fear, even and especially in these challenging days.
This Sunday is Connections Sunday, aka the best opportunity all year to find your community within our larger church community. Church groups will have tables in the courtyard that you can visit to find out more and sign up to participate. It's also your chance to sign up for Covenant Groups!
September 6, 2025 at 6:06 PM
This Sunday is Connections Sunday, aka the best opportunity all year to find your community within our larger church community. Church groups will have tables in the courtyard that you can visit to find out more and sign up to participate. It's also your chance to sign up for Covenant Groups!
This Sunday at 2:00 pm is the start of The Woodlands, the UUA's virtual support space for trans/nonbinary beloveds of all ages. Go here to learn more and to register :
THE WOODLANDS: A Monthly Trans/Nonbinary Care Pastoral Space
The Woodlands is a monthly online gathering designed for trans/nonbinary children, youth, and adults—as well as the parents and caregivers of trans people.
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September 5, 2025 at 6:06 PM
This Sunday at 2:00 pm is the start of The Woodlands, the UUA's virtual support space for trans/nonbinary beloveds of all ages. Go here to learn more and to register :
Join us Sunday, September 7 at 9 and 11 am for Water Communion, (also known as Water Ceremony) which began in the 1980s as a UU worship ritual. Most UU congregations now hold a Water Communion to mark the beginning of the new church year (September). With music provided by Lydia Clark. uuabq.org
September 4, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Join us Sunday, September 7 at 9 and 11 am for Water Communion, (also known as Water Ceremony) which began in the 1980s as a UU worship ritual. Most UU congregations now hold a Water Communion to mark the beginning of the new church year (September). With music provided by Lydia Clark. uuabq.org