Seduced by Grace
Michael Bernard Kelly
'Seduced by Grace: Contemporary spirituality, Gay
experience and Christian faith'
Michael Bernard Kelly.
ISBN: 978-0-9802983-2-1
Foreword by The
Honourable Michael Kirby AC CMG.
AUD$24.95.
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In these collected writings - essays,
articles, letters, talks - Michael Kelly
invites us into an intimate exploration of
the inner wisdom and radical challenge of
Christianity. In reflections that take us
from the fields of Nicaragua to the 'War on
Terror', from the joy of erotic pleasure to
the challenge of rebuilding the church,
Kelly gives voice to a spirituality of
desire, grounded in justice and love.
Michael Kelly is a freelance writer,
activist, counsellor and educator, known
internationally for his ministry in
spirituality, sexuality and human
integration.
'Every chapter of this book is an
invitation. It's thoughts and stories carry
you over and over again into a deeper
place...' -- Rev. Dorothy McCrae-McMahon
'Michael Kelly writes with great precision
and poignancy of a yearning which everyone
shares. A yearning for love, both physical
and spiritual. A yearning for completion. In
this wonderful collection of essays, Kelly
seduces the reader with his insights
into those fleeting moments in which we
encounter the greatest mystery of all' --
Dr Fiona Capp
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REVIEWS
'With a subtitle such as this you
might think this collection of essays and reflections (many
of which were published in The Age) is heavy going. In fact,
it's anything but that. Although Michael Kelly is dealing
with weighty and contentious issues - revolving round the
plight of today's gay and lesbian Christians - his writing
is learned and perceptive, often conversational in tone. The
pieces vary in mood, from the quiet and contemplative as in
'On the Peninsula, alone with God', to the more assertive
and argumentative and more speculative portraits of a very
human Jesus in 'Could Jesus have been Gay?' and 'Jesus
Gloried in a Woman's Touch'. Above all, there is a spirit of
optimism running through most of the collection, perhaps
best exemplified in his portrait of S Francis of Assisi (an
excellent piece of writing), whom he sees as emblematic of
the kind of saint the modern church is so sadly in need of .
-- Steve Carroll, The Age
Eureka Street - reviewed by Terry Monagle
Catholica - reviewed by Amanda McKenna |
