Growing up in a Unitarian family, I was influenced by values assumed to result in a better society if we lived into them adequately. I aim to live out good values such as respect for everyone’s inherent worth and dignity yet I struggle with people whose views I can’t understand or agree with. I feel they are wrong and I’m right.  Did Unitarianism get me into this pickle? More importantly, can it help get me out?

Rev. Antonia Won is the Canadian Unitarian Council’s Congregational Development Staff for the Western Region and British Columbia. Antonia is a third generation Canadian Unitarian, dedicated in the Church of the Messiah now the Unitarian Church of Montreal. Antonia has a professional background in leading planning and design teams, specializing in large theme parks. She studied for the ministry at the Vancouver School of Theology and prior to her work with the CUC, Antonia served congregations large and small, in Canada and the US. She has two young adult children and a partner who is teaching her to sail.