Canadian United Church pastor (Westhill United Church in Toronto – www.warmplace.ca ) and now author Gretta Vosper’s book, titled With or Without God should really be titled Without God because that’s essentially where it leads; another fitting title would be Throwing the Baby (Jesus) Out With the Bath Water. By the end of the book Vosper describes the heritage of Christianity (and essentially all forms of belief in the supernatural) as human dreams and nothing more. There is no room for God in what she calls "progressive Christianity".
It is amazing that she can be considered a pastor, literally one who is called by Christ to shepherd people in The Way, given she doesn’t even promote a belief in God let alone the divinity of Christ, etc. The appendix to the book is a description of a Theistic and a non-theistic (why not say Atheistic – that’s what it is) service. The preference is clearly toward the non-theistic church service.
The book is inconsistently footnoted and often vast, sweeping statements and assumptions are made without any external reference (see p.89 which references Emperor Constantine’s motivations for converting). This particular style of developing the argument is similar to that of Baigent, Leigh & Lincoln in their book Holy Blood, Holy Grail – for their effort the first letters of their last names came to form an apt acronym.
I would be lying if I didn’t say that the massive amount of coverage for this book in Macleans and the CBC didn’t disappoint me primarily for it’s one-sidedness. There is no care to bother interview orthodox Christian scholars but rather any reference to this side of Christianity is made by those who staunchly oppose it. Well – for what it’s worth everything Vosper has to say in this book has been said before and far more eloquently by the likes of Marcus Borg, John Shelby Spong, and John Dominic Crossan (none of whom I agree with but scholars all).
Vosper is also the chair of the group – Progressive Christianity. All in all this book is less substance than a kind of a cultural bookmark not unlike the kind emerging secular leaders are "required" to publish in order to move to a higher level of leadership in the culture. This book feels the same – like an attempt to establish Vosper rather than to promote serious dialogue.
Harnessing Chaos 
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