God, you’re right here

God, you’re right here

“God, you’re right here” received six stars when it was published on the tenth anniversary of my first encounter with Jesus. Christian Rimestad writes in his review that the book is “excellent and soul-strengthening to have along the way”.

He describes how the first book was “a compelling account of the events and the earthbound journalist’s attempt to find an explanation for what happened”, while the second book “emphasizes that God is concretely present for many, even if most choose to remain silent about it. He calls this third book completely different, as it is only in my voice, so “here we get Charlotte Rørth’s sermon”.

“It is a sermon about a faith that is carried by the clear message that God loves his people. The rest of us may have our doubts, but for Charlotte Rørth, her encounter with Jesus, among other things, has made God’s love an undeniable truth on which you can build your life and your everyday life. The message is unfolded clearly and convincingly over the book’s 190 pages and is just as life-giving and edifying as a high mass with one of the sermons that goes straight in.”

The book is about living with faith, but also to a large extent about living with grief and about how we “forget to see the miraculous in life” of which “experiences are reminders”, he writes and concludes with the words that you can “continue to extract sentences from the book about a faith that now carries Charlotte Rørth’s life – and can carry our lives if we want or can or dare to face the miracle that is life and love.”

Forlaget Gyldendal published the 190-page long and small book on February 25, 2019 with the following review:

“Journalist Charlotte Rørth did not grow up in a religious family and was neither a religious nor a spiritual seeker when Jesus literally appeared to her and spoke to her in a church in Spain. The experience, described in the book and TV show “I met Jesus”, forced her to reconsider her modern rational life.

In “God, you’re right here”, Charlotte Rørth shares her reflections and decisions on how she lives with the type of experiences she is far from alone in having had. By being open and talking about her religious experiences and what she believes in, she wants to break down the prejudices and taboos that for some people make it difficult to talk about God and faith or acknowledge a faith.

Charlotte Rørth does not want to convince anyone, but argues in the book for the necessity of an open conversation about God and death, joy and community, the national church and deep prayer – about life as a person of faith today.”

Read more about the new book – and an excerpt – on the publisher Gyldendal’s site here (link)

Reviews for “God, you’re right here”

“An important testimony that we are in relationship with God” writes Sørine Gotfredsen in her review, in which she criticizes that the book does not deal with Islam, but calls it “useful” with “a showdown with the very intellectually based Christianity”, and believes that “Charlotte Rørth speaks beautifully to those who long for greater connection between body and faith”. Read the full review here

“With her first two books, Charlotte Rørth pulled the taboo out from under religious experiences and made even skeptical theologians listen and think,” she says, concluding that “Rørth’s experiences in the wake of the books show that there is actually a certain spiritual standing in the national church in the 21st century.”

The analysis can be read in full by subscribers here (link)

“It is without a doubt the wildest thing that has happened in recent years in the areas of faith and religion,” writes Birgitte Stoklund Larsen, Secretary General of the Danish Bible Society, in her faith analysis of the book in Kristeligt Dagblad.

In his review, Weekendavisen’s Jens Bærentzen praises my “undemanding style” among many other things in his review, which can be read in its full length by subscribers (link) https://www.weekendavisen.dk/2019-10/boeger/vaeltet-ind-i-troen

Berlingske Tidende’s reviewer, former TVA journalist Lone Kühlmann wonders why I don’t write more directly about my son’s death, and concludes with: “… all thinking people know that they have an obligation to their fellow human beings. It’s called charity, and you don’t have to be religious to know that. And although Charlotte Rørth is a well-meaning person, the third book about her encounter with Jesus and what it led to is rather long-winded. To put it briefly. There is no solution to life.”

The review can be read in full by subscribers here on this page.

The day after the release, I was on Go´Morgen Danmark, which requires a subscription to watch the broadcast, but there was also an article on TV2’s website (link)

Kristeligt Dagblad published an interview with me about living with death – also as a podcast – listen to it here (link)

Also in the same newspaper is an excerpt from “God, you’re right here” about how faith for me is that God loves me (link)

“Gud, du er jo lige her” received six stars in Fyens Stiftstidende in this review (link) and immediately went on the bestseller list.