{"id":51087,"date":"2015-08-06T15:40:49","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T15:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/globe_and_mail_atheist_minister_fighting_united_churchs_effort_to_fire_her\/"},"modified":"2015-08-06T15:40:49","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T15:40:49","slug":"globe_and_mail_atheist_minister_fighting_united_churchs_effort_to_fire_her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51087","title":{"rendered":"(Globe and Mail) Atheist minister fighting United Church of Canada\u2019s effort to fire her"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[The Rev. Gretta] Vosper, 57, who was ordained in 1993 and joined her east-end church in 1997, said the idea of an interventionist, supernatural being on which so much church doctrine is based belongs to an outdated world view.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s important, she says, is that her views hearken to Christianity\u2019s beginnings, before the focus shifted from how one lived to doctrinal belief in God, Jesus and the Bible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs the Bible really the word of God? Was Jesus a person?\u201d\u009d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s mythology. We build a faith tradition upon it which shifted to find belief more important than how we lived.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/national\/atheist-minister-fighting-united-churchs-effort-to-fire-her\/article25849312\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[The Rev. Gretta] Vosper, 57, who was ordained in 1993 and joined her east-end church in 1997, said the idea of an interventionist, supernatural being on which so much church doctrine is based belongs to an outdated world view. What\u2019s<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51087\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,50,42,425,207,435,154,155,184,108,424,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-atheism","category-canada","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-secularism","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}