Don Heights Unitarian Congregation

About

Don Heights Unitarian Congregation is a Unitarian Universalist congregation in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is affiliated with the Canadian Unitarian Council. It is one of six UU congregations and fellowships in the Greater Toronto Area.

Story

The congregation was founded in 1956. The congregation obtained its first building in 1960, located at the corner of Antrim Crescent and Kennedy Road in Scarborough. In 1985, the site was redeveloped to include a 10-story co-op housing apartment building, which was completed in 1991. The site was sold in 2000, and the congregation is now located on Wynford Drive, near Don Mills Road and Eglinton Avenue. Notable members have include musician Bill White, the first Black Canadian to run for federal office and his daughter Sheila White, both of whom previous served as musical director of the congregation.

Mission

Unitarian Universalism is a community characterized by support for a "free and responsible search for truth and meaning". Unitarian Universalists do not share a creed; rather, they are unified by their shared search for spiritual growth and by the understanding that an individual's theology is a result of that search and not obedience to an authoritarian requirement. Unitarian Universalists draw on many different theological and non-theological sources and have a wide range of beliefs and practices. Unitarian Universalists espouse a pluralist approach to religion, whereby the followers may be atheist, theist, or any point in between.