About Us

We are brave, curious, and compassionate thinkers and doers. We are diverse in faith, ethnicity, history and spirituality, but aligned in our desire to make a difference for the good. We have a track record of standing on the side of love, justice, and peace.

We have radical roots and a history as self-motivated spiritual people: we think for ourselves and recognize that life experience influences our beliefs more than anything.

We need not think alike to love alike. We are people of many beliefs and backgrounds: people with a religious background, people with none, people who believe in a God, people who don’t, and people who let the mystery be.

We were raised Unitarian Universalist or Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Humanist, Jewish, Muslim, Pagan, atheist and agnostic, believers in God, or without a faith.

On the forefront of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer inclusion for more than 40 years, we are people of all sexual orientations and gender identities.
We welcome you: your whole self, with all your truths and your doubts, your worries and your hopes. Join us on this extraordinary adventure of faith. Get involved!

Emerson Unitarian Universalist Church, a member of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA), was chartered in 1960 to serve the growing western suburbs of Houston.Emerson is an LGBTQ-friendly Welcoming Congregation and its main building is the first church facility in the nation to earn LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environment Design) certification.

Our congregation has the diversity of spiritual beliefs, cultural backgrounds and sexual orientations that make Unitarian Universalism such a dynamic faith. We are a warm, welcoming group of men, women and children; couples and singles; wanderers, searchers and leaders. We are companions on our journey of spiritual growth and together we work to live our faith in the world.