Unitarian Universalist Church of Long Beach 5450 East Atherton Street, Long Beach, CA 90815

"Small church with beautiful gardens"

"A very nice place. We just said goodbye to a dear friend today and we were honored to use their auditorium."

"The congregants are very progressive and strive to treat each other with respect for each person's inherent worth and dignity. There is an organic learning garden."

"If you have never been to a Unitarian Universalist church, I recommend trying it. The people are very chill, very accepting of multiple spiritual modes, and supportive of each other, and they have meditation instead of prayers. They care about the environment. This church has solar panels on the roof."

"The Unitarian Church on Atherton played a role in my career as writer and publisher. In 1969 at high school (Jordan HS Long Beach) my writing had been censored by the official school newspaper. It was a satire of why there was a dress code preventing dudes from growing long hair and girls were prohibited from wearing mini-skirts. These were the days before personal printers and prior to wide distribution of copy machines when mimeograph machines ruled for inexpensive print jobs - like church programs. I was attending Cal Heights Methodist and for $5 they let me print 500 copies containing articles, stories and cartoons I wrote and drew. I stapled the two pages together and handed them out across the street from the school. Obviously there was trouble but that never stopped me since readership and popularity soared. For the second issue I sold ads that brought in a total of $20 so earned a profit. By the third issue the Methodist minister expressed problems with the content confronting the establishment so I took the print project to the Unitarian Church where they kindly printed issues three and four without passing any judgement."