John A. Buehrens

John Buehrens was the 6th President of the Unitarian Universalist Association, 1993 to 2001. Married to the Rev. Gwen Langdoc Buehrens, a priest in the Episcopal Church, since 1973, he was national co-chair of Freedom to Marry from 2002 to 2012. He serve as Senior Minister of the First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco from 2014 to 2017. His most recent book is A Religious Center with a Civic Circumference: Unitarians in San Francisco Since 1850. He published Conflagration: How the Transcendentalists Sparked the American Struggle for Racial, Gender and Social Justice in 2020. Universalists and Unitarians in America: A People's History, was published in 2013. He is also the author of Understanding the Bible: An Introduction for Skeptics, Seekers and Religious Liberals. He is coauthor, with Forrest Church, of A Chosen Faith, and coauthor, with Rebecca Ann Parker, of A House for Hope. Now retired from full-time ministry, he continues to write, teach, preach and consult.