In which our regular writers toss around subjects a little more volatile than usual.
Colin Perkel of The National Post
has an update here on
our old friend Gretta Vosper, the United Church minister who believes in neither God nor the Bible. She is, in
Perkel’s words, “prepared to fight an unprecedented attempt to boot her from
the pulpit for her beliefs.” Or her unbeliefs, I guess.
Tom: The attempt by the United Church to give Gretta her gold watch and wish her all the best in
her future endeavors may be unprecedented, but it’s hardly a surprise, except
perhaps in that the United Church is taking some sort of stand here about
atheism in their pulpits.
Immanuel Can, does “the idea of an interventionist,
supernatural being on which so much church doctrine is based” belong to “an
outdated world view”? More importantly, can we separate how we live from what
we believe? Gretta thinks we can and should.
