WCR 2026 is getting closer and closer!!
In this post in our series about the Western Canadian Conference 2026 speakers, we feature Gretta Vosper, Adrienne Hill and Janice Selbie.
Gretta Vosper trained for ministry at Queen’s Theological College, where the foundations for her post-theistic work were laid. There, she learned that the Bible was a human construction. For the better part of her ministry, she applied the extrapolation of that truth to her work within and beyond the church. In 2013, she deconstructed the concept of god in a Sunday sermon; few were surprised. For the most part, her denomination – one I consider to be the most progressive in the world – tolerated her as she continued to irritate it toward publicly stating what so many who lead within it believe: god is a metaphor for goodness and love lived out with compassion and justice, no more and no less. They became less tolerant when she began to use the term “atheist” to describe herself, despite the fact that many of my colleagues identify as nontheists, a term which, of course, means exactly the same thing.
Adrienne Hill, a retired math teacher, is a board member of Susan Gerbic’s About Time Project and is an editor for Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia. She regularly reports for The Skeptic Zone Podcast and has appeared on Skeptoid, Squaring the Strange, and The Thinking Atheist podcasts. Adrienne has worked as a researcher and has appeared in videos on Coleman Watt’s Think This Through YouTube Channel, and contributed articles to The Skeptic (Australia), Skeptical Inquirer, and AIPT Comics.
Janice Selbie is a Registered Professional Counsellor and religious recovery consultant located in the unceded territory of the Syilx people in Kelowna, BC. She deconverted from evangelical Christianity after nearly 4 decades and now has a private practice devoted to helping former believers recover from religious trauma syndrome. In addition to her work as a counsellor and consultant, Janice is the founder and host of CORT – the Conference on Religious Trauma – and she also hosts the Divorcing Religion Podcast.
Our previous post featured Phil Zuckerman and Dr. Christopher Labos, and, in the next month’s edition, we will tell you more about Seth Andrews and Dr. Caroline Brookfield.
We hope you will have a chance to meet them in person at the Western Canadian Conference 2026.
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