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UCC in Focus | Church News
United Church moderator reflects on righting injustice and what gives her hope
We talk to Rt. Rev. Jordan Cantwell as she wraps up her term as United Church moderator in July.
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UCC in Focus | Church News
How churches are saving themselves through real estate
Churches across the country are trading their valuable real estate for long-term funding. But success takes more than good intentions.
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UCC in Focus | Church News
United Church of Canada proposes new regional boundaries
The UCC has mapped out new regions based on geography, relationships, and culture
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Justice | Society
Egerton Ryerson: The legacy of a tarnished hero
He founded public education in Ontario — and this very magazine — while also promoting residential schools. How should we judge Ryerson today? Some students want his name and image gone.
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Ethical Living | Society
Living young in Canada’s oldest town
With the highest percentage of seniors in the country, Qualicum Beach, B.C., offers a glimpse into our greying future.
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UCC in Focus | Church News
Presbytery turns down bid to halt Gretta Vosper hearing
A last-ditch effort to halt a hearing that could defrock a self-declared atheist, who is serving as a minister in The United Church of Canada, was rejected by a church court in mid-January.
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UCC in Focus | Church News
Executive rejects bid to delay Gretta Vosper proceedings
In 2015, Nora Sanders ruled that Vosper’s current answers to ordination vows could be used to review her effectiveness in ministry. The United Church’s judicial committee, its highest quasi-legal body, refused to hear Vosper’s appeal of that ruling.
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UCC in Focus | Church News, Theology
How atheist minister Gretta Vosper tested the limits of United Church tolerance
Atheist minister Gretta Vosper is audacious, passionate and polarizing. She tested the limits of United Church tolerance and found little institutional appetite for her brand of unbelieving.
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UCC in Focus | Church News
United Church committee finds atheist minister ‘not suitable’
According to a majority of the committee members, Gretta Vosper "is no longer in essential agreement with the statement of doctrine of The United Church of Canada."
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UCC in Focus | Society
How to deal with clergy who no longer believe in God
Reaction against a minister who came out as an atheist was swift and blunt. But questions persist about how to deal with clergy who no longer believe.
