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Michael Morwood

Michael Morwood has over 30 years experience in retreat, education, parish and youth ministries in Australia. Since 1990 he has worked in adult faith formation in almost every diocese of Australia. He is interested in helping Christians examine what they believe and why they believe it. Michael Morwood is an adult faith formation professional with the rare gift of being able to speak to adults with honesty, simplicity, and candor.  Morwood sums up the frustration so many of us have with organized religion.

For 28 years, Michael Morwood has been a Sacred Heart priest in Victoria, Australia. Then he was silenced in February, 1998, by the Archbishop of Melbourne, George Pell. Without the due process of theological investigation, the popular educator was warned by his religious superior not to speak on the topics of Incarnation, Redemption and the Trinity, which had been the core of his 1997 book, “Tomorrow's Catholic: Understanding God and Jesus in a New Millenium.”  By episcopal fiat, he found himself virtually unemployable and he resigned from his priesthood.

Since that time, Michael Morwood has been busy on the international circuit talking about the very ideas the Archbishop refused to consider. “Tomorrow's Catholic: Understanding God and Jesue in a New Millennium” has proved to be a popular book in adult faith groups.  Morwood wanted "to help Catholics re-image and re-language some of the basics of their faith, including a cohesive religious worldview in harmony with our place in the universe." Morwood is among many contemporary faith animators, well-schooled in theology, who are helping church people to revision their place in a universe whose nature is radically different from that of the authors of the Bible.

Since 1998, Morwood has written more popular books, “Is Jesus God?”
(Crossroads, 2001), “Praying the New Story” (2004), “From Sand to Solid Ground (2007) and has recently published “Children Praying A New Story.”