What are your first thoughts each morning? In our household, the retired physician and former Methodist thinks, “What will I do today to make the world a better place?” The fifth-generation Universalist and former coal geologist thinks, “What on God’s green Earth am I doing here?” What better way to ... Read More

My name is Becky Burns. In 2018 I decided it was time to move from Memphis, TN to Shaker Heights to be close to my family. Although I grew up in the Methodist Church (my dad was a Methodist minister), I knew that I wanted to become a member of ... Read More

We’re among those people who people say, “They’ve been coming here for a long time.” And it’s true. We started coming here in 1988. We started coming when our kids were very young and Mary Ellen raised the issue of our children needing someplace to go for their religious education ... Read More

My name is Brandon Ruud, and with my partner, Greg Nosan, we’ve been members of—and actively involved in—UUCC since 2022, when we moved back to the Cleveland area. While we have been Unitarians and members of UU churches for many years, UUCC seemed a natural fit when we relocated. It ... Read More

Kat and I started coming to UUCC in October of 2024, looking for a larger community in the light of the potential (now all too real) political climate. We didn’t really know what to expect from that first visit, and we weren’t sure if we were in the right place ... Read More

I’m Laurie Albright. My husband Brian Larson and I have been coming here since the mid-80’s, initially along with our young sons. As we’ve engaged with the congregation, I’ve grown to love this congregation as a whole AND the individual people! You’ve helped us raise our sons, offered meaningful fellowship, ... Read More

I experience feelings of gratitude for the opportunity to pay forward now what was provided by congregants back in the 60s to me, Dell and my granddaughter Elise.  Back then, in the 1960s the UU congregation donated and pledged their money to build meeting and classrooms to provide the space and place ... Read More

First Church, and now UUCC, have been the touchstone of my life since we arrived in the Cleveland area over 40 years ago. We discovered UUism and the congregation when we moved in a couple of doors down from the church and it almost immediately became a church home for ... Read More

Terry Robbins What do you do if you and your spouse have different religious backgrounds and you want to find a suitable religious home for your young children? Well, my husband suggested we check out the UU church on Shaker Blvd. and I’ve now been coming to this house of ... Read More

My name is Tom McKenna and I joined what was then First Unitarian and is now UUCC in1986 after first becoming a Unitarian Universalist in 1984. I was raised Roman Catholic but split from that as a teenager and didn’t think any kind of organized religion would work for ... Read More