Nicole Lamarche is a minister in the United Church of Christ, a spiritual creative and a faith-based organizer and community leader. She currently serves as Pastor of Community United Church of Christ in Boulder, CO.

She is a dreamer and a doer, a partner and a parent, a lifelong member of the United Church of Christ, and ordained minister since 2005. She served two congregations in Massachusetts before co-creating what is now called Urban Sanctuary San Jose.

Committed to building a just world for all beyond the walls of sacred spaces, Nicole was a member of the Interfaith Tent at Occupy Oakland as part of Occupy Wall Street. In San Jose, she supported efforts to ban fracking in California and was a member of People Acting in Community Together working on the movement for Black Lives, the Rapid Response Network, Night Walk and more. She is currently a co-conspirator with the Colorado Poor People’s Campaign and a member of the Faith Leaders Caucus of Boulder County with Together Colorado.

She also works closely with Colorado Faith Communities United to End Gun Violence, GreenFaith and more.

Nicole is dedicated to fresh expressions of spirituality and loves the church as a place for each person to be seen, to belong and to be actively engaged in building a just world for all creation.

Nicole served churches in New England, before co-founding a congregation of progressive Christians, agnostics, spiritual independents and other people of conscience in Silicon Valley, now called Urban Sanctuary San Jose. She is dedicated to fresh expressions of spirituality, the search for meaning and religious community.

Nicole earned a BA in International Studies from the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ. In 2003, she won the title of Miss California and went on to earn Fourth Runner-up at Miss America. In 2005, Nicole earned her Master of Divinity and a MA in Theology with a focus on Feminist and Process Thought from the Pacific School of Religion and the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA.

Nicole Lamarche

“People with power will use their position to convince us to vote against our own interests and to mistrust the margins and the voices that are not centered, but that doesn’t mean the ones on the sidelines are wrong. When any leader of any political party or group claims that their policies are especially blessed by God, beware. We should celebrate any politician that is willing to become unelectable for the sake of a Higher Love!”

– Rev. Nicole Lamarche

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Reverend Nicole

About the Ministry

by Connie Larkman | published on Jun 14, 2021

Boulder Church Collects Guns, Turns Them Into Gardening Tools

Op Ed by Reverend Nicole

Boulder Daily Camera, by Charlie Brennan, April 3, 2021

Guest Opinion: The Rev. Nicole M. Lamarche: Holding onto hope

Interview with Reverend Nicole

Boulder Daily Camera, by Charlie Brennan, March 23, 2019

Minister new to Boulder, but not to the Spotlight

Being a Spiritual Entrepreneur in Silicon Valley

Sermons & Teachings

Outside the Tomb

Outside the TombExcerpts from a New Day’s Lyric by Amanda GormanJohn 20:1-18April 20, 2025Nicole M. Lamarche Welcome again thank you for choosing to celebrate Easter

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Approaching the Path

Approaching the Path Excerpts from The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin and Luke 19:28-40April 13, 2025By Nicole M. Lamarche Thank you again for being

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Your Ways

Isaiah 55:1-9 and Excerpts from Followers, Not Admirers by SorenKierkegaardMarch 23, 2025By Rev. Nicole M. Lamarche Welcome again, however you are connecting, in whatever shape

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Confronting the Devil

March 9th, 2025By Nicole M. Lamarche I invite you to join me as you are moved as we pray Psalm 19 together. I have a confession

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Love Your Enemies

Love Your Enemies Feb 26 Luke 6:27-38 and This Morning I Pray for My Enemies by Joy Harjo Sunday February 23, 2025Nicole M. Lamarche Welcome

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Reverend Nicole M. Lamarche

Based in:
Boulder, Colorado
revlamarche@gmail.com