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.

“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
- Devoted Dreamer
- Spiritual Leader
- Prophetic Preacher
- Prayerful Pastor
- Religious Innovator
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Media - Articles & Video

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
Being a Spiritual Entrepreneur in Silicon Valley
Sermons & Teachings
The Kin-dom of Heaven Will Be Like This
Matthew 25:13-14 and What We Need is Here by Wendell BerryNovember 12th, 2023By Rev. Nicole M. Lamarche Welcome again on and welcome those who are
On the Divine Feminine: Why you should care about the Gospel of Mary Magdalene
The Gospel of Mary Magdalene and Excerpts from Interior Castle by Mirabai StarrOctober 29th, 2023By Rev. Nicole M. Lamarche Welcome again on and what is
On Being Kind: Does it Matter?
1 Thessalonians 1:1-10 and an Excerpt from Make Yourself Happy: Be Kind By Arthur C. BrooksOctober 22nd , 2023By Rev. Nicole M. Lamarche Welcome again
On the Afterlife: Do We Need Heaven?
John 14:2 and You shall ask by Nancy WoodBy Rev. Nicole M. LamarcheOctober 15th, 2023 As I shared we are doing things slightly differently today
Is the Lord Among Us Or Not?
Exodus 17:1-7 Excerpts from With Or Without God: Why the Way We Liveis More Important Than What We Believe by Gretta Vosper** Sunday October 1st,
On Abundance
Matthew 20:1-16 and an Excerpt from The Abundance Within us and Between Us by Parker PalmerSunday September 24th, 2023By Rev. Nicole M. Lamarche Welcome again