Remembering hope in a time of change: United Church leader visits Sherbrooke

The moderator of the United Church of Canada was in Sherbrooke on Sunday to speak at Plymouth-Trinity United Church. The Right Reverend Doctor Richard Bott, who was voted into his position by the members of his church last summer at a meeting in Oshawa, Ontario, came to share a message of hope in a time of transition for the nation’s largest Christian denomination outside of the Roman Catholic Church. “I think we are seeing changes in how people relate to organized religion and that can be really frightening for people who have been part of the more traditional structures of a church,” Bott told The Record on Sunday morning, explaining that although any church is fundamentally a spiritual organization, the realities of the modern world mean that churches have to rely on administrative structures to make sure that the lights stay on and the work of each individual congregation gets done. See full story in the Monday, May 27 edition of The Record.