John A. Buehrens

John A. Buehrens

The Rev. John A. Buehrens, president of the UUA from 1993 to 2001, is the author of several books, including the forthcoming Conflagration: How the Transcendentalists Sparked the American Struggle for Racial, Gender, and Social Justice (Beacon Press, 2020).

Learn more about John A. Buehrens on UUA.org.

By John A. Buehrens

  • Photo collage of 6 spiritual friends, from top left: Theodore Parker, Frederick Douglass, Margaret Fuller, James Freeman Clarke, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Lewis Hayden
    Spiritual friendship and social justice
    John A. Buehrens
    From Editorial

    The Transcendentalists practiced the art of forming and maintaining spiritual friendships transcending differences of gender, social location, theology, politics, and race.

  • Jeremy Strong as the Rev. James Reeb in the Oscar-nominated Selma
    Selma at the cinema
    John A. Buehrens
    From Ideas

    An important film introduces Unitarian Universalists Reeb and Liuzzo, but doesn’t mention their faith.

  • The welcome table
    John A. Buehrens
    From Editorial
    How the hospitality of progressive churches cultivates forgiveness and justice.
  • Marriage in the nineteenth century
    John A. Buehrens
    From Ideas
    Two books reveal the complexities of women’s lives in Unitarian Boston.
  • Pacifists and pragmatists
    John A. Buehrens
    From Spirit

    Progressive communities, including Unitarian Universalist congregations, are prone to painful rifts between pacifists and pragmatists.

  • Famous consultant and forgotten minister
    John A. Buehrens
    From Ideas
    Grandson of a slave, Clarence Bertrand Thompson was a Unitarian minister, management expert, and biochemist.

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