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“Christian Spirituality within a New Story” A day with Michael Morwood Past - Saturday, April 26th, 2008 – Past 10:00 am – 3:00 pm Location: Community of Hope UCC 7118 Old Sauk Rd., Madison, Wisconsin (click here for map) Cost: $20 Click here for this brochure in PDF format for easy printing 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, what they imagine and why they imagine the way they do. He is interested in helping Christians articulate faith in Jesus in ways that resonate with contemporary understanding of our place in the universe. Michael was a member of Missionaries of the Sacred Heart for 38 years, 29 years in priestly ministry. He has an MA in Pastoral Ministry from Boston College. Following the banning of his book, Tomorrow's Catholic and his silencing by Archbishop George Pell in Melbourne in 1998, Michael resigned from religious life and priestly ministry. He married Maria Kelly in March 2000 and they live in Melbourne, Australia. Michael is highly regarded as an inspiring and challenging speaker on the need to re-shape Christian imagination, thought and liturgical language. Michael Morwood is the author of Tomorrow's Catholic: Understanding God and Jesus in a New Millennium (Twenty-Third Publications), Is Jesus God? Finding Our Faith (Crossroad Publishing) and God is Near: Trusting Our Faith (Crossroad Publishing). For more information go to Michael Morwood’s website at www.morwood.org. Selected Quotes “It makes a big difference how we pray if we view God as a person in heaven or, as the Baltimore Catechism put it, if we view God ‘everywhere.’ For many of us prayer has been an effort to contact an ‘elsewhere God.’  What happens when we shift our attention to an ‘everywhere God’ --- a sustaining Presence in all, through all, never absent, never distant, not in one place more than in any other place, a Presence ‘in whom we live and move and have our being’?” (From Morwood, Praying a New Story, p. 7) “This book is written for readers interested in exploring this challenge facing not only  the Catholic Church but all Christian denominations today…. A renewed focus on Jesus’ teaching concerning the connection between living in love and living in God --- and an understanding of God beyond the narrow limits imposed by traditional doctrinal thought --- reveal how genuine renewal can occur in the Church.” (From Moorwood, Sand to Solid Ground , p. 9) Schedule 9:30 - 10:00 – Registration/Gathering 10:00 – Noon - Session 1 Noon -1:00 - Lunch (on own) 1:00 – 3:00 - Session 2 Directions (or click here for map) Directions from the east & north using I-90 and exiting on Hwy 12-18 west Exit right onto S. Gammon Rd, 1 mi Name changes to N Gammon Rd 0.6 mi Turn left onto Old Sauk Rd Directions from north or west using Hwys 12 or 14 At exit 253, take ramp right and follow signs for Old Sauk Rd 0.3 mi Turn left onto Old Sauk Rd Directions from the north & west using Hwy 12 & 18 east At exit 255, take ramp right and follow signs for Gammon Rd 0.2 mi Turn right onto Gammon Rd 1.6 mi Turn left onto Old Sauk Rd 0.2 mi Registration COST: $20 (make check payable to: CTA – Madison) Send registration (name, address, phone, and e-mail) with payment to Call to Action – Madison P. O. 45894 Madison, WI 53744-5894

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