“Wrestling with God” — A Place Where Skeptics and Believers Meet

Last updated on: March 14, 2015 at 10:49 am by Barbara Falconer Newhall

“Wrestling with God” — A Place Where Skeptics and Believers Meet 2015-03-14T10:49:42-08:00 Barbara Falconer Newhall

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Phil Cousineau, host of TV’s “Global Spirit,” has several nice things to say about my new book, Wrestling with God: Stories of Doubt and Faith. But I’m especially touched by his thought that “seekers of all persuasions” will find a place in Wrestling with God. That was one of my hopes when I embarked upon what turned out to be a decade-long project. I hoped that my book would be an interfaith place where people of diverse traditions, temperaments — and persuasions — could get together to chat like next-door neighbors over the back fence. Here’s what else Phil had to say in an endorsement he wrote for Wrestling with God. (Thank you, Phil!)

The search for God, or the gods, the Divine, the Great Spirit, is one of the oldest of quests. As timeless as it is, the search still tends to defy explanation. What is left is description, narrative, and story, all of which are in abundance in Barbara Falconer Newhall’s riverflow of a book, Wrestling with God. Seekers of all persuasions will feel represented here, from priests, ministers, and rabbis to engineers, physicists, and avowed non-believers. Taken together, the storytellers of Wrestling with God give voice to the reality of the modern world, which is multiphonic, skeptical, but also longing for deep meaning.” Phil Cousineau is the author of The Art of Pilgrimage and the host of Global Spirit, seen nationally on PBS and Link TV. The show resumes in May.

Barbara Falconer Newhall blogs regularly for Patheos.com’s Spirituality Channel. Her riffs on life, family, books, writing, and her rocky spiritual journey appear weekly on BarbaraFalconerNewhall.com. Wrestling with God is her first book.

Wrestling with God: Stories of Doubt and Faith, by Barbara Falconer Newhall, Patheos Press, 2015, $14.99 paper, $7.99 ebook. Available wherever books are sold.

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