Greta vosper biography

Margaret Ann "Gretta" Vosper is an ordained minister of the United Church of Canada who is a self-professed atheist.
I've been the minister at West Hill United Church in Scarborough, Ontario, since 1997.
The Rev. Gretta Vosper, the minister of the West Hill United Church in Toronto, who does not believe that Jesus was the son of God, speaking at a “weekly.

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I've been the minister at West Hill United Church in Scarborough, Ontario, since 1997. During that time, the work we have undertaken has been to create a community that provides all the benefits of religion without the doctrinal beliefs. In other words, we provide "church" that is for all sorts of people whether they are believers in a certain religious tradition or don't have any beliefs at all. Because "the way we live is more important than what we believe" which just happens to be the subtitle to my first book, With or Without God. In 2004, having made some significant advances in this work at West Hill, I founded the Canadian Centre for Progressive Christianity. It created a network for Christians who had read or thought themselves outside the box of traditional beliefs. I'd been trained in very progressive understandings of theology and it seemed crazy to not share those with others. So the CCPC was born and filled a void for many years. My first book was published in 2008 with the support of Bishop John Shelby Spong, my mentor and friend.

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Gretta Vosper

Margaret Ann Vosper (born July 6, 1958), known as Gretta Vosper, is an ordained minister of the United Church of Canada who is a self-professed atheist. Her beliefs have caused controversy both within and outside of the United Church. In 2016, following the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris, her public statement that the belief in a supernatural God promoted hatred led the United Church of Canada to institute an official review of her suitability as a minister. In 2018 that process was discontinued when Vosper and the United Church reached an agreement that left her free to continue as a minister.

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The United Church is the only denomination in the world that could declare the Bible is not the authoritative word of God for all time. And that needs to be said by a major recognized denomination in order to undermine every single statement that is made by any religious extremist group — that their document, whether it’s the Bible, the Qur’an or the Bhagavad Gita, is not a divinely authored piece from some supernatural source.

[The United Church

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Gretta Vosper

Gretta Vosper has been in the spotlight since founding the Canadian Centre for Progressive Christianity in 2004. Her first book, With or Without God: Why the Way We Live is More Important that What We Believe, quickly became a national bestseller and attracted media attention and debate across the country. Met with both acclaim and vitriol by those inside and outside the church, With or Without God challenges the clergy’s silence on contemporary scholarship, arguing that people need to know the Bible is not the authoritative word of God for all time. With or Without God was featured in the cover article of the 2008 Maclean’s magazine Easter edition, and was listed on Amazon’s Top 25 Books that Caused a Commotion. In 2009, Gretta was named one of the Most Compelling Women in Canada by More Magazine.

Since then, Gretta’s work has been featured in media across the country and internationally. She has been introduced to Bishop John Shelby Spong’s readership as a guest columnist – Spong has called her “one of the