- Anthony’s current Entrepreneurial Ministry is dedicated to Removing Unconscious Debris from the Soil of the Soul through a series of Zoom-based, multicultural awareness and anti-racism workshops.
- Anthony has recently served as Guest Minister at Unitarian Universalist congregations in Arizona, California, Georgia and Montana.
- Anthony served as minister at Humboldt Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Bayside, CA.
- He is the former Director for Congregational Life at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Phoenix, AZ.
- Anthony Mtuaswa Johnson was ordained as a Unitarian Universalist minister in October 2020.
- He holds a Master’s of Divinity Degree from the Starr King School for the Ministry.
- He holds a Master’s Degree in Human Learning and Development.
- Anthony is a former United States Army Officer.
- Anthony was born a Baptist in the South and raised as a Muslim in the North and never accepting either, became a Unitarian Universalist in 2012.
- Anthony has over 20+ years in creative media production and executive management experience.
- He has been active in social justice activities since the late 1960’s.
- He completed his Ministerial Internship at the Sedona Unitarian Universalist Fellowship and his Clinical Pastoral Education at Banner Desert Medical Center, the sixth busiest trauma center in the country.
Personal Information
- Anthony is an Elder, an African-American cis-gender hetero-sexual male who uses the gender pronouns he/him/his.
- Anthony is married to Lydia Munoz Johnson. Together they parent four children and five grand-children.
- He loves music, practices and shares Tai Chi, enjoys playing word games and is a Master Poet.
- He is the eldest of four children born in Hattiesburg, MS.
- Anthony loves to travel and has been to forty of the fifty states and has served as a mentor to child-soldiers in war-torn Liberia, West Africa.
“I live in a divinely-inspired Universe. I have nothing to fear. I trust myself and when I do so, I trust in the very wisdom that created me!” Wayne Dyer
