A Visit From "The Guardian"

On sunday April  10th, West Hill United welcomed journalist Ashifa Kassam from "the guardian" to our Sunday morning service.

CLICK the title below to visit The Guardian and read the article published on April 24, 2016.

The article begins, 

There is not one mention of God during the 70-minute service at Toronto’s West Hill United church. Bibles are nowhere to be seen. The large steel cross – one of the few remaining religious symbols in this church – is hidden behind a cascade of rainbow streamers.

But that is perhaps to be expected in a church led by an avowed atheist.

“I do not believe in a theistic, supernatural being called God,” says Gretta Vosper, the United Church of Canada minister who has led West Hill since 1997. “I don’t believe in what I think 99.99% of the world thinks you mean when you use that word.” Tor her, God is instead a metaphor for goodness and a life lived with compassion and justice.... - Ashifa Kassam, The Guardian