My name is Birch Cue (rhymes with "church pew"), and the pronouns I use are they, them, and theirs. I currently serve as the Intern Minister at First Universalist Church of Denver. I am completing my ministerial education with Meadville Lombard Theological School, and will finish my Master of Divinity degree in May 2026. Prior to beginning this intern ministry, I served as a religious educator and membership coordinator at my home congregation, First Unitarian Church of Des Moines. When not in church or school, you will find me spending time with my spouse and our dog; creating things (sewing, cooking, and baking especially); and spending time outdoors.

I have been a Unitarian Universalist since finding our faith as a teenager. The promise of our faith's value of Pluralism drew me in. It told me that our faith was a place I could hold the complexity and contradictions of my life in the care and company of equally complex and contradictory people. In our faith, I found a place where all of me - my Roman Catholic hertiage; my Pagan practice; my genderqueer and neurodivergent experiences - could be embraced for the gifts they bring to religious life. This is the faith I aspire to nourish every day: one where every person's every gift enriches our life together.

Despite growing up in a family of dedicated and humble lay-leaders, I rarely thought of being a minister "when I grew up." But the call to ministry was always there. Time and time again, the communities I have served - whether as a lay-leader or as a religious professional - have called me to ministry. They have affirmed that my gifts have a purpose: to build space for others to give their gifts in service of just and thriving world. A world which isn't yet, but can be.

I believe in our faith's transformative power. I have seen it in the people I have served, just as they have seen it in me. I look forward to this journey with you.