Meet Our Minister

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Rev. Dan Miyake

Universalist Unitarian Church

Rev. Dan Miyake has been our minister since August 2020. He received his Master of Divinity degree from Earlham School of Religion in Richmond, Indiana with an emphasis in Pastoral Care. He has previously worked as a Chaplain Resident at a Level 1 Trauma Hospital in North Carolina, and completed his ministerial internship at the First UU Society of Albany, NY in 2020. UUCEL ordained Rev. Dan on November 1, 2020.

  • 2018 – 2020: Rev. Jenn Gracen
  • 2004 – 2018: Rev. Dr. Cynthia L. Landrum, minister emerita 2018-Present
  • 2002 – 2004: Rev. Jill Terwilliger
  • 1997 – 2002: Rev. Susan Smith
  • 1995 – 1997: Rev. Harold Beu
  • 1994 – 1995: Rev. Jean L. Wahlstrom
  • 1991 – 1994: Rev. Michael R. Leduc
  • 1988 – 1991: Rev. Richard Venus
  • 1985 – 1987: Rev. Larry Hutchison
  • 1984 – 1982: Rev. Eve Bardis
  • 1971 – 1982: Guest Speakers: Ralph McCormick and Rev. Irwin Gaede
  • 1961 – 1981: Rev. Ruth Smith, minister emerita 1981-2004
  • 1960 – 1961: Guest Speakers: Robert Marshall, Vito Abotis, Lonie Sculetts, Walter Kellison, J.C. Williams, and Ruth Smith
  • 1959 – 1960: Rev. Joseph Schneider
  • 1956 – 1959: Rev. Alfred Judd
  • 1955 – 1956: Otis Aggert
  • 1955: Rev. William Myers
  • 1952 – 1955: Rev. W. O. Bodell
  • 1950 – 1952: Rev. Argyle Hauser
  • 1942 – 1950: Rev. William O. Bodell
  • 1934 – 1937, 1938 – 1942: Dr. L. D. Case
  • 1930 – 1932: Rev. Verna Armstrong
  • 1928 Summer: Rev. Edna Brunner
  • 1927: Rev. Orin Stone
  • 1917-1926: Dr. Luther Adams (speaker), Dr. Roger Etz (speaker), Rev. Emerson LaLone, and Rev. George McGraw
  • 1916: Leon and Martha Jones
  • 1876 – 1916: William Looker Gibbs
  • pre-1876: Rev. John Gilmore and Father Almond Wood Mason

Pianist

Anita brings exciting and dynamic music to our worship experience. She is a classically trained and Juilliard educated pianist and we’re delighted to have her on our team.

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The Mission of the Universalist Unitarian Church of East Liberty is to be a church where people of diverse beliefs can worship in a spirit of reason, tolerance, freedom, and loving fellowship, committed to social justice, enriched by religious education and sustained by spiritual nourishment.

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