{"id":75044,"date":"2018-11-10T12:18:11","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T17:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=75044"},"modified":"2018-11-10T17:01:24","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T22:01:24","slug":"cp-atheist-united-church-minister-keeps-her-job-heresy-trial-called-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=75044","title":{"rendered":"(CP) Atheist United Church minister keeps her job; &#8216;heresy trial&#8217; called off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A United Church minister who had faced an unprecedented ecclesiastical court hearing over her professed atheism is no longer in danger of a defrocking after the two sides reached an agreement in the long-running case.<\/p>\n<p>In an unexpected development this week, Rev. Gretta Vosper and the church settled ahead of what some had dubbed a \u201cheresy trial,\u201d leaving her free to minister to her east-end Toronto congregation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to be wonderful,\u201d Vosper said in an interview Friday. \u201cWe\u2019ll be out from underneath that heavy cloud. Now we\u2019ll be able to really fly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The settlement, the terms of which are confidential, came during what was supposed to be a week of routine preliminary motions ahead of the full hearing later in the month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/news\/atheist-united-church-minister-keeps-her-job-heresy-trial-called-off\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Atheist United Church minister keeps her job; &#39;heresy trial&#39; called off <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uPbLB4RdAu\">https:\/\/t.co\/uPbLB4RdAu<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7pBZd57YCI\">pic.twitter.com\/7pBZd57YCI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; National Post (@nationalpost) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nationalpost\/status\/1061066428651106304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 10, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A United Church minister who had faced an unprecedented ecclesiastical court hearing over her professed atheism is no longer in danger of a defrocking after the two sides reached an agreement in the long-running case. In an unexpected development this<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=75044\">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":[207,435,154,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75044","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=75044"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75046,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75044\/revisions\/75046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}