And most important despite his 82 years, and a hesitation, sometimes, over a name he can offer clues as to how it should continue. How it might cope with the aftermath of the residential schools, for starters. Sometimes I think the United Church would feel uncomfortable not feeling guilty. He allows that we get a second dose, too, from our Methodist forebears. Their business was redeeming sinners, and part of the process was working up a guilt trip first.
Grant is often prescient.
Native people almost everything. The mission churches could not release the Gospel from the tight reins of European thought. Events since that book s publication indicate the church might be more ready to receive Native wisdom. Reading Grant s articles or books, or talking with him about the state of the church, is somehow comforting. That s not because the truth about the church is easy, but because with him, it makes sense.