“With a delightfully original style, Tickle charms and amuses as she elucidates, producing convincing evidence that we are indeed engaged in a remarkable process of theological transmutation, and opening the door to the ricer spiritual life to come.”
God Is Near is undeniably a significant success in Australian publishing. Michael Morwood, however, deserves thanks from more than his publishers. His book is a blessing for all those wanting for themselves or others, a simple guide to making sense of the contemporary Catholic Church. …
Through a skilled use of questions, appeals to common sense, and illustrations from biblical scholarship and history, Morwood leads his readers to see that changes are not for their own sake, but are a fundamental rediscovery of the teaching of Jesus and the practices of the early Church. …
This book is suitable not only for those within the Church wanting to develop an adult faith, but also for those “outside”, either considering membership of the Catholic Church or returning to it.
Michael Morwood’s book, God Is Near, is going into its fourth printing in eight months, which shows it must be filling one demand.
It … is full of excellent material that certainly makes you think about the faith you have held for so long and thought you knew all about.
This excellent book has already obviously found a market. I recommend it to others, especially lay people like myself whose place in the Church, Morwood says, has been unjustifiable degraded.
God Is Near enables the issues of Church and change to be opened up around the coffee table of our homes and work places. This book is full of profound insights in simple, accessible language. Recommended reading for all who journey with the Church and its unfolding.