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Tomorrow’s God: Our Greatest Spiritual Challenge – Neale Donald WalschEditorial ReviewsFrom Publishers WeeklyThe author of the Conversations with God series writes another “dialogue” between two voices on the subject of who God is and how the human understanding of God makes a difference in choices and behavior. Walsch writes candidly that “very little here cannot be found, cumulatively, in the sacred writings of all the world’s wisdom traditions,” as he retells the life story of the Buddha and insists on the divinity of Jesus Christ. Yet, he continues, in much the same way a more traditional theologian would, humans “have not been listening.” His objection is to a God made in the image of humanity that has justified violence and exclusivity. The alternative he proposes is an immanent process rather than a super being who demands allegiance. For Walsch, this “expanded view” of God and spirituality engenders improvements in human institutions. The second half of the book imagines practical applications based on a utopian world in which this new spirituality reigns. Chapters envision changed relationships, sex, politics and education, and Walsch even speculates about a cash-free future society in which there will be no mandatory taxation. Walsch is consistent in the concerns throughout his dozen-plus books and speaks simply—some would say too simply—about great questions of purpose, peace and happiness that haunt humanity.Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.From BooklistThe Conversations with God guy is back, with more conversations with God. As he cautioned in The New Revelations (2002), so he cautions here: he doesn’t have much new to say. Still, “you might find . . . a New You. And a way to create a New World.” Half of this book retreads the turf trod in New Revelations, which, you’ll recall, had to do with junking the old, judgmental God in favor of the God that really is–a divinity who never asks for anything, doesn’t care how you connect with Him, doesn’t operate in terms of right and wrong but in terms of what works and what doesn’t, communicates all the time, and never damns anyone or lets anybody die. The other half is called “The Fourth Transformation,” and God assures us it’s inevitable. He points up in boldface what this transformation will bring, such as “your presently established religions will stop fighting with each other,” and “the idea that politics and spirituality do not mix will be abandoned forever.” Hmmm. Isn’t that what happens in a perfected Christian or Islamic society, anyway? God/Walsch isn’t about to deliquesce into Christianity or Islam, however, for He also bold-facedly predicts, “Your presently established religions will stop declaring that something can exist outside of God.” Those who believe that creator and creation are distinct probably should be discouraged from reading even that far. Ray Olson