Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder

The Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder is a Unitarian Universalist ("UU") church in Boulder, Colorado.

In 2017, congregation members voted to become a sanctuary church and from December 2017 to March 2022, undocumented immigrant Ingrid Encalada Latorre lived in sanctuary within the church building prior to being pardoned by Colorado Governor Jared Polis and granted a stay of removal in 2021. Encalada Latoree was one of more than 70 immigrants nationally who lived in sanctuary in churches during the Trump presidency.

The Unitarian Fellowship of Boulder

On the 30th July 1948 the American Unitarian Association granted the first-ever "Fellowship Charter" to the Unitarian Fellowship of Boulder. Granting that charter kicked off a two-decade expansion of Unitarians -- the largest and most consequential period of growth in Unitarian history; a third of current-day congregations formed during the movement. The charter required no minister, but at least ten religiously liberal laypeople who expressed sympathy with the purposes of the American Unitarian Association, had bylaws, and made an ongoing financial commitment to the AUA.

In 2008, the UU Church of Boulder hired the first Developmental Minister in Unitarian Universalism. The Rev. Howell Lind served seven years in a capacity specifically aimed at changing and revitalizing the congregation -- a move unusual in the Unitarians' congregational polity.