John A. BuehrensJohn A. Buehrens is an American Unitarian Universalist minister and author.BiographyBuehrens was ordained in 1973 and served his first congregation in Knoxville, Tennessee. He then became Senior Minister of First [Unitarian Church of Dallas] in 1981 and following that, Associate Minister of the Unitarian [Church of All Souls] in New York City. He was then elected to become the sixth president of the Unitarian Universalist Association; he served from 1993 to 2001 and resided in the Boston area. Following that, from 2002 to 2012, Buehrens served as minister of First Parish in Needham, Massachusetts. He served as Interim Minister at the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Monterey Peninsula in Carmel, California. He served as Developmental Senior Minister of the First [Unitarian Church (San Francisco)|First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco] and retired in June 2017.