Edna P. Bruner

Edna Pearl Bruner (May 14, 1906 – August 3, 1997)[1] was a Canadian-American clergywoman and educational consultant in the Unitarian Universalist denomination.

While she was still in high school, Bruner became junior superintendent of the Young People's Christian Union, a Universalist youth organization.

She served as a church pastor in Waterloo, Iowa, from 1930 to 1940,[7][8] in Canton, New York, from 1945 to 1950,[5] and in Kennebunk, Maine, from 1968 to 1972.

[5] From 1940[9] to 1968, Bruner was a field worker[10] and educational consultant on the national staffs of the Council of Liberal Churches[7][11] and the Unitarian Universalist Association, based in Boston.

[12] She toured nationally in this work,[13][14][15] giving lectures and introducing local congregations and church women's groups to curriculum materials for religious education.